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| 0:00.0 | A friend of mine, Liz, hits me up and she's like, hey, I got some money and I want to buy some dope. |
| 0:13.4 | About three years ago, in 2021, I created this series, Death Resulting. |
| 0:19.4 | It was a story about so-called death-resulting laws, |
| 0:22.6 | which treat drug overdoses as homicides. |
| 0:25.6 | The laws were created during the crack epidemic of the 1980s, |
| 0:29.6 | but now they're being used more than ever. |
| 0:32.6 | The drug dealers today, because of fentanyl, they're serial killers. |
| 0:44.5 | The series was also a story about a mother and son, Shannon Neeland and Josh Cook. |
| 0:49.8 | Both were caught in a generational cycle of poverty and drug use. |
| 0:54.9 | They bring in the chain to people together. And it's Josh. |
| 0:56.6 | She's like, oh, that's my son. |
| 0:57.8 | She's like, Josh, how are you? |
| 0:58.1 | Josh, how are you? Josh, are you all right? |
| 1:03.3 | The story went like this. |
| 1:05.7 | Shannon became addicted to opioids when Josh was a kid. |
| 1:09.2 | Stable home life for Josh crumbled. |
| 1:11.4 | Josh acted out, got expelled from school, was sent away to group homes, then thrown into a juvenile jail. |
| 1:18.6 | Josh first used drugs at 11 years old. |
| 1:21.6 | He developed a serious opioid addiction. |
| 1:24.1 | He survived seven overdoses. |
| 1:26.8 | By 2018, Josh was 20 years old, homeless, and living from drug fix to drug fix. |
| 1:33.8 | He could only afford to buy drugs by selling them. And one day he sold some fentanyl to a close friend named Liz. |
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