I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from the news and go deep.

And this week we're going to do something a little different.

If you've been listening to this podcast from the beginning, you know that in our first episode we spent a bunch of time in a town called Austin, Indiana, with people who are addicted to this drug called Opanah.

The town is the center of one of the biggest HIV outbreaks in the US in years.

Many people got HIV after sharing needles.

And since that episode, a lot of you've told us you want to know more.

We want to know what's happened to the people we met in Austin, Devon, Samantha, Jeff, and Joy.

So for this episode, we're going back to Indiana to find them.

The person we really want to find is Joy.

We're still using her first name because she's done drugs illegally.

Joy is the nurse who had heard her back at work and then got addicted to pain pills.

When her prescription ran out, she started buying Opanah on the street.

Joy told us she never thought she would use a needle.

And then there she was in that first episode.

So we decided to cook Opanah.

Here's our infamous can.

And used to this.

This little piece right here.

Is that really a quarter?

No, that's an eighth.

Sorry, that's just a little piece of nothing.

A little piece of nothing.

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