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Our America with Lisa Ling

Season 1 • Episode 6 • Heroin in the Heartland

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Our America with Lisa Ling Season 1, Episode 6: Heroin in the Heartland

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Lisa discusses the time she spent in a central Ohio town ravaged by heroin, and the connections that she made with the people along the way. Watch Our America with Lisa Ling Season 1, Episode 6 Heroin in the Heartland in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Our America with Lisa Ling Season 1, Episode 6 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

7 episodes
1

Faith Healers

Ling visits a faith healing revival in Fort Mill, S.C., run by controversial evangelist Todd Bentley. During the visit, Ling says she's challenged by what she thought she knew about faith.

60 min
2

Transgender Lives

Five transgender people in various stages of transition are profiled.

60 min
3

State of Sex Offenders

Lisa Ling explores the challenges of living life on a list of registered sex offenders as she meets with ex-cons in Florida. "They're America's pariahs, pushed into the shadows," she says. Or, as one man living in a swampy campground with other offenders calls it, "the leper colony." Ling also meets a real-estate agent who finds more substantial housing for offenders who can afford it; and follows authorities as they arrest an ex-con accused of failing to register an address change.

60 min
4

Pray the Gay Away?

"Can prayer make you straight?" Host Lisa Ling explores that notion as she observes some 1100 participants at a Freedom Conference sponsored by the evangelical organization Exodus International, which offers advice on combating same-sex attractions. "I have chosen to live my life through the filter of my faith," says Exodus president Alan Chambers, "not through the filter of my sexuality.

60 min
5

Online Brides

A Texas man travels to Colombia to meet women who advertise for husbands at a marriage website.

60 min
6

Heroin in the Heartland

Lisa discusses the time she spent in a central Ohio town ravaged by heroin, and the connections that she made with the people along the way.

60 min
7

A Closer Look

Updates on the people and situations shown in previous episodes.

60 min