Opioid Addiction-American Indians

Santa Clara Pueblo Gov. J. Michael Chavarria holds images of hypodermic needles recently found near a creek on the New Mexico American Indian pueblo after he attended a forum on opioid addiction held at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico, an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction, met with the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

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