Soledad O’Brien came to Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati suburbs for her one-hour “Heroin USA” documentary because Greater Cincinnati “has recently become the center of the nation’s heroin epidemic," says the show publicist.
“Heroin USA: A Soledad O'Brien Special Report,” airing at 10 p.m. Sunday on the Al Jazeera America network, will be told through three area residents.
O’Brien calls them the “new face of the heroin epidemic: young, well-off and white,” says the network media release. On the YouTube preview, one of the women says she "died and came back to life... but yet still wanted to get high."
O'Brien came to Kenton County Jail and other locations because the number of people who died of heroin overdoses has increased almost five times from 2010 to 2013, and nearly tripled in Ohio in that span, the network says.
The Peabody and Emmy-winning former CNN and NBC journalist contributes to CNN, HBO's “Real Sports” and Al Jazeera America through her Starfish Media Group.
