My rural community has a lot of opioid abuse, and it is heartbreaking. Addicts are our neighbors and the people we've known our whole lives. We went to school with them or babysat them. We watched them grow up. Or we knew them as strong, capable adults who got hurt and lost a job.The police are absolutely torn apart because they are duty-bound to arrest their neighbors or young adults who used to play with their kids. Every institution in our small town is reeling. Our community is strained. We don't know exactly what to do, but most of us know the addict as a good person wrestling with something we can't understand. We are willing to help if only we knew how.