Rural weekly editor Bradley Martin is following through on his commitment to report on the crippling impact of drug addiction in his Tennessee county, holding up an uncomfortable mirror to his community on a topic that most rural newspapers pigeonhole as crime news.
Drug overdose deaths in Hickman County nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020, Martin recently reported in an above-the-fold story in the Hickman County Times. In addition to a sensitive, in-depth treatment of the phenomenon, he also showed the increasing danger of fentanyl by running a chart with an annual breakdown of what caused all county overdoses from 2017 to 2020.
Martin has been writing stories and columns on the topic since at least last December. In late January, he wrote in a story that he intended to report on an aspect of drug addiction once a month this year.
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