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An addiction that destroys lives and families

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 CHJ Fellow
Antonio Valverde
Published on
July 15, 2014

Antonio Valverde, a  2014 California Health Journalism Fellow, reported for Univision 34 Los Angeles on how drug addiction affects Latino families.

This segment originally aired on Univision 34.

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