University of Louisville Hospital was featured in a recent documentary about opioid addiction.VICE News Tonight produced the 11-minute film, which examines the connection between fatal overdoses and organ donation in Kentucky. The documentary follows the story of a 38-year-old Louisville woman whose kidney was donated to a diabetic Virginia woman."It was absolutely real," said Dr. Glen Franklin, a trauma surgeon at UofL Hospital. "I thought the finished product was very good and gave the lay public a very good peek inside the inner workings of organ donation."Franklin said some Kentucky hospitals have seen a significant increase in the number of organ donors since the opioid epidemic started."We've seen almost a 30 percent increase in donors from the opioid epidemic," Franklin said. "It is a real number that is impacting real lives."Franklin said organ donation can bring some comfort to families experiencing the loss of a loved one."You can never say the opioid epidemic is a good thing, but for some of these families, in the midst of their deep tragedy and the loss of a loved one, there is a small silver lining that can be a true triumph for someone else," Franklin said. The documentary also explains the process of donating organs from an addict. Franklin said many donors who were addicted to drugs had hepatitis C."Medications are given to treat the recipient to help prevent the transmission of the disease, and hepatitis C is over 90 percent curable with these medications," Franklin said. We are told recipients have the choice to either accept or refuse an organ from an overdose patient."Patients who are recipients have choices, and if they're not interested in a high-risk organ, they don't have to take one," Franklin said. "Could you become addicted to drugs because you took this organ? No."VICE News Tonight airs weekdays at 7:30 p.m. on HBO.