Residents of opioid-blighted town create ‘haunted house’ to tell the destructive story of addiction

A nine-year-old girl roots through the pockets of her 17-year-old’s sister’s discarded coat. She finds a vaping device and, sitting on her bed, mischievously inhales.

Unbeknownst to her, inside are a few grains of fentanyl, the killer opioid. The sister comes back. She screams, paramedics arrive and perform CPR. But it is, apparently too late.

This harrowing scene, played by child actors, is part of America’s latest attempt to combat the raging opioid epidemic that claimed nearly 50,000 lives last year.

In an immersive experience called the "Haunted Trap House" – ‘trap house’ is slang for a drug den – visitors are being given a stark, uncompromising window into the world of those who use fentanyl….

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