How Obituaries Chronicle the Opioid Crisis

As the death toll from the opioid crisis continues to rise, communities have found an unexpected source for understanding its impact: death notices. These modern-day obituaries, published occasionally in community papers, but more often on social media, crowdfunding sites or websites like Legacy.com, have become one of the best – in some cases one of the only – chronicles of the crisis’s toll. Bob speaks with journalist Anna Clark, who recently wrote about opioid-related death notices for the Columbia Journalism Review.