A village consumed: Heroin, casino money, and Minnesota's Lower Sioux Indian Reservation

Sep 29, 20170

Mark Green opens his eyes to the blinding fluorescent lights of his Brainerd hospital bed. Stuffed down his throat, a plastic tube pumps oxygen into his lungs, giving him an unbearable feeling of constantly inhaling without a second breath.

Thick sweat glazes his forehead and soaks through layers of sheets covering his body, all tamped down by an electrical heated blanket.