On August 17th, the Washington Post released an article highlighting the growing heroin epidemic. In the span of four hours on a Monday evening, police responded to 26 heroin overdose cases in Huntington West Virginia, a city with a population of 49,000 people. It has also been reported that drugs now kill more people than car accidents according to data from the CDC. This article reports on a series of overdoses in a small city and focuses on a larger issue affecting the United States.