How Poverty, Pills, And Power Trap Eastern Kentucky | Ep. 374

How Poverty, Pills, And Power Trap Eastern Kentucky | Ep. 374 What happens when a community is boxed in by poverty, prescriptions, and power? Justin sits down with Nicole, who grew up between Chicago and Letcher County, to tell a raw story about Eastern Kentucky’s overlapping crises: the opioid wave that labeled people “pillbillies,” the collapse of coal that gutted livelihoods, and the local machines that decide who gets help, who gets punished, and who gets ignored. Her account starts with ...