Hey booty? You coming to see me?

In a parking lot in Robinson County, North Carolina,

Carissa Collins Cattle is hustling, handing out health supplies to drug users.

Did you overdose when you go on?

Damn, girl, most people do. Chrisa is in drug recovery herself, sober nine years.

And on this crisp morning in December,

she's working for a non-profit, helping people addicted to drugs, including fentanyl.

Our colleague Julie Wernow recently traveled to go meet with her.

Kursa is like everybody's southern mama. Like this woman is smoking constantly,

swears when she needs to, hugs freely.

You don't need no test kits, kids.

No.

What about, what about wound care?

And she goes around this big county in North Carolina,

handing out all kinds of supplies for people who use drugs.

Carissa has been doing this work for several years, but a couple years ago, something strange started happening.

Drug users were getting these horrible wounds, unlike anything they'd seen before.

It was like their flesh was rotting.

Looking for help, they started texting Carissa.

And then the next thing that happens is she starts to get these photos.

Carissa showed some of them to Julie. Is that her leg? photos. that she works with were sending her photos of these wounds and saying what is this?

I've never had this before. In some cases people were looking at things that had started as something that looked like a cigarette burn and had blown up to the size of a grapefruit on their arms.

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