Sounds like Harlan County...ie “Justified”
Yes. It’s basically the same population and economic/educational sinkhole.
Yep, wife works in Pike county and we live in the next county.
For years we had pot growers in the area and no real problems. Then the Oxycotin Express hit the area and suddenly we got crime rates rocketing upwards meth labs right in town and heroin on the streets (after they shut down the Oxy Express.)
This used to be a town where when you went down town you left your car doors unlocked and the keys in it. Now it is a hell hole. a couple of years back some druggies walked into the coin shop that is next to me in broad daylight and beat the old guy there over the head and robbed him of his gold and silver coin stocks. They needed money for oxy.
And the worst part is that oxy crap got into the police force and the city workers. several went to jail and the Chief of Police had to quietly retire to save his ass and his dirty cops from going to big boy prison.