Acton\u2019s childhood reads like a Dickensian nightmare set in Youngstown: parents divorced at three, sexual abuse by her stepfather, a basement below an antique shop for a home, a tent for a winter roof. Yet she rose \u2013 accelerated medical programme, public health leadership, compassion burnished by lived trauma. When Republican Governor Mike DeWine, a Bush-era conservative, picked her in 2019 to tackle Ohio\u2019s opioid crisis, neither realised she\u2019d soon lead a war on a silent, mutating enemy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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