In November 2016, Virginia's health commissioner declared the state's opioid addiction crisis a public health emergency. In Chesterfield County, Sheriff Karl Leonard saw the epidemic's affect on incarceration rates.

"We’ve been running jails now for 200 years. What we've been doing is not effective. Anyone who tells you it is, is lying to themselves. We have the same people coming in and out, in and out. I just reached the point of absolute frustration with the system," he said.

That same year, Sheriff Leonard started an in-jail, peer-to-peer Heroin Addiction Recovery Program (HARP) to try to curb the crisis and give people a chance at recovery.

Sisters Stephanie and Tera Crowder began HARP together in 2017. This is part of their ongoing story.