PINEVILLE, Ky. — Jay Steele has seen plenty of death in this jagged slice of Appalachia. Not only is he the county coroner, he also owns a funeral home. But even Steele can be shocked by the fallout of the opioid epidemic that has ravaged this poverty-riddled pocket of shuttered coal mines. There was the … Continue reading Boston Globe: Disparate states, a common horror – Kentucky’s opioid epidemic has warning, lesson for Massachusetts