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KVNO: Battling alcohol problems in the border town of Whiteclay





'In the first part of our series Battling Alcoholism in Whiteclay, we visited the small Nebraska town on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Four liquor stores in Whiteclay sell what amounts to four million cans of beer each year, helping feed a massive alcohol problem that pervades the reservation. The Oglala Sioux tribe is now taking on the beer manufacturers in a lawsuit that could send hundreds of millions of dollars to one of the poorest counties in the country.

In this second segment, we go to the front lines of the battle against alcoholism on the Pine Ridge reservation to find out why some people there say throwing money at the problem might not be the answer. "

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Battling Alcoholism in Whiteclay: The Front Lines (KVNO 7/20)

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