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Benny lives in a small apartment with his wife and grandson. He shoots Lortab, a pain killer initially prescribed for a long list of injuries he's sustained working in the mines. 'That’s another thing that’s bad about pain,' he said. 'It…

Patients of the Clinch Valley Treatment Center wait in their cars at 4 a.m. for a position in line when the doors of the clinic to open at 5 am. Most of the early patients are miners who have to work around 6:30 am--and have to travel a long distance…

With coal still on his nails, a coal miner crushes a pain pill and sniffs if off a plate.

Eddie Branch cries while talking about losing his brother to an overdose of methadone. 'Its crazy. The same medicine that killed my brother is saving me.' Branch has battled prescription drug addiction for over 20 years. He is now a patient at Clinch…

Underground, in a 3 1/2 -foot 'low coal' operation such as this one in the mountains near Vansant, Va., coal miners mostly works on their hands and knees, crawling like an infant. They spend the entire shift, sometimes 12 hours or more, without…

Many coal miners in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States are deeply addicted to prescription pain medication initially prescribed to them by doctors to help with the chronic back and neck pain that goes hand-in-hand with their profession. …

On the last day he could run, Omar was playing soccer. He and five friends were resting outside his home on the southern outskirts of Baghdad on Sept. 20, 2007, when the mortar shell fell. The explosion killed one of his playmates and shattered both…

Six years ago they were fishermen, not ferrymen. But now, in the Haifa neighborhood of Baghdad, sewage runs through the narrow alleyways directly into the river. Waterside restaurants stand abandoned, their owners still afraid to open their doors.…

Sousan comforts Mariam, encourages her to share, play games, chase. Her daughter is shy around her newfound cousins. The toddlers run, fall and laugh, slapping the floor with untrained feet.

Weeping, his parents grab him, holding his face in her hands, kissing one cheek, then the other. Before their arrival at the Iraqi police headquarters in Baghdad, they were transported, hands tied, from the U.S. detention facility Camp Bucca, in…