Independent reporting · Baton Rouge · 2022The Fentanyl Project
What started as a story about the danger of fentanyl became a nine-part reporting project. Over several months, April interviewed parents, addiction and mental-health experts, law enforcement, public officials and advocates to look at how fentanyl and addiction were affecting Baton Rouge — and why the answers were more complicated than she expected.
Cheryl Leggio with a photo of her son, Ryan, whose story was featured in “The Addict,” part three of The Fentanyl Project.