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      Hooked: America's Addicts

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      • Here, heroin spares no one, not even the sheriff's wife

      • It's 'chemical warfare' on our children

      • In the last decade, the Swafford family has taken in 15 foster children. Of the 15 foster children Cyndi and Jesse have taken in over the last decade, 13 are there because of their birth parent's drug addiction.
From left to right: Cyndi & Jesse Swafford with foster babies, adopted son Kalib Swafford, biological son Cole Swafford, adopted son Brandon Swafford.
CNN obscured a portion of this image to protect the identities of the two foster children.

        Couple fosters 13 children left by addicted parents

      • Kalib Swafford sees his birth father James Fuller for the first time in 10 years.

        Recovering addict and 12-year-old son reunite

      • Rachel Chaffin, a cheerleader and 4.0 student, is trying to overcome her heroin addiction.

        She had a 4.0 GPA and was hooked on heroin

      • A morgue in Montgomery County, Ohio, fills up nearly every night with bodies from the heroin epidemic.

        County's morgue overflows with overdose deaths

      • This Sunday, May 21, 2017, photo provided by the Chester County District Attorney's Office in West Chester, Pa., shows opioid drug packets, a syringe and other belongings found by law enforcement personnel in an addiction counselor's bedroom at the Freedom Ridge Recovery Lodge, a suburban Philadelphia halfway house in West Brandywine Township, Pa. Two men working as addiction counselors at the halfway house died of opioid overdoses inside the facility and were found by residents on Sunday, authorities announced Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (Chester County District Attorney's Office via AP)