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The free market economics of synthetic opioids (with Sam Quinones)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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The Neuro Science Golden Age of Research

We are bombarded with legal, addictive products by a whole array of corporations we can all probably name. I believe the opioid epidemic is really calling on us to understand what a damaging thing jail, the way we do it traditionally has been. It's not that you'll get rid of jail, am you know, the drug that brings most people to jail is alcohol, you know. So we're always going to have jail. It's just how you do it. And so these small counties, very, very conservative counties, by the way, most y places, are now experimenting with recovery pods,. Instead of watching judge dudy all day long, you can actually begin to take in

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