Near the tail end of Spencer Mumpower’s prison sentence, he had lost twelve friends, and five others were now in prison or jail. “He’s had very few friends get clean, either through going to rehab or jail, but the ones who didn’t are either dead, or they have parents who enable them, and they continue to do drugs,” Ginger Mumpower said. “Most of his friends have never seen jail; they either talk their way out, or their parents buy their way out.” When Colton Banks died, in 2012, for every one opioid-overdose death, there were 130 opioid-dependent Americans who were still out there, still using
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