One Year in Hope: How Photo of Mom Overdosing Led to Recovery

One Year in Hope: How Photo of Mom Overdosing Led to Recovery
Erika Hunt in a police photo and viral photo after her overdose Town of Hope Police Department
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Several years ago, a photo of an overdosing mother that went viral became a graphic symbol of America’s opioid epidemic.

Exactly one year after the picture was published, however, and that same photo no longer marks the end of another tragic story, but the start of a new story—of hope.