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#756 We Hate The Ivy League Now Ft. Malcolm Gladwell

American Fever Dream

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What Is the Magic Ant Experiment?

A hundred years ago in california, there's this kind of whacky guy who takes over californias da. He has this idea that the number one causeo drug over doses is doctors prescribing those drugs. So he invents ha system where when a doctor writes a prescription, there have to be three copies and they're kept for five years. The rest of the country doesn't adopt the same system. No one thinks anything about this until the opioid crisis happens,. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying from drug overdoses.

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