CHRISTOPHER BOOKER:

Since 2001 the filmmaker has seen more than a dozen of the kids he grew up with die due to opioid addiction. People from his neighborhood, people played hockey with and went to school with in Somerville, Massachusetts.

For those who remain, to hear them talk about it now in Hogan's new documentary, Runnin', the opioid crisis arrived in Somerville, a suburb just northwest of Boston, as it did in many towns across America.

OxyContin pills, which Hogan and his friend's called OCs, came first, then came heroin.