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Times are hard in Sweetwater, a town of about 10,000 people in Texas’ Central Plains. Drug abuse is rife, work is limited, and mental healthcare is scarce and stigmatized. Here’s @TexasObserver’s story on the crisis in Sweetwater — one which is replicated in rural towns across the country.

https://www.texasobserver.org/mental-health-crisis-rural-texas/