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MINNESOTA ( WCCO ) -- This fall, Jason Lennox is walking 15 to 25 miles every day for three weeks: a 307-mile journey through Appalachia from Williamson, West Virginia, to Nashville, Tennessee.

His mission is to raise $307,000 to fund mental health and addiction programs.

"Three-hundred-and-seven-thousand people. That's how many people we lost in our country alone last year to drugs, alcohol and suicide," Lennox said.

Lennox will walk in memory of lives lost and lives still fighting. It's a mission rooted in his own pain and survival.

"I think I was 12 years old when I started getting into alcohol, smoking cigarettes, then marijuana came, prescription pills after and some of the harder drugs," Lennox said.

By his early 20s, he was running from t

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