Kai Penn of National Geographic describes in this 2015 video how a shortage of cops, no shortage of oxycontin and heroin, and our interstate highway system’s ease of access to major drug distribution centers has made rural Vermont a major profit center for Crime Inc. and had a multi-generational dairy farmer selling the copper tubing in the barn for a day’s fix. Very worth watching. Here’s the link:

http://natgeotv.com/in/the-big-picture-with-kal-penn/videos/drug-infested-vermont