How opioids become a problem

They were found dead in front yards and in cars on the streets of rural Jackson County, West Virginia. Between 2006 and 2008, 16 people -- age 26 and younger -- overdosed on prescription painkillers.The county of 29,000 people north of Charleston saw a side of itself many people didn't know existed.Most of the victims had access to leftover prescription painkillers from family or friends."That exposed a problem we wouldn't have had discussions about," said Amy Haskins, project director of the Jackson County Anti-Drug Coalition, public health educator and sanitarian at the Jackson County Health Department."Most of the kids were from the same graduating class."For the first time, after those tragic deaths, the county started an education program on prescription drug abuse.Addiction has become a problem, coinciding with a huge expansion in the number of opioid prescriptions in the past 20 years.