Zack: What other media did you see kind of running with this, and what disservice does this do? He says it wasn't just the fever swamp over at fox news that was doing this. There were actual health and addiction and recovery focused magazines and web sites who also ran with it. Zuckerman: It's a signal to me how uphill of a rhetorical battle it really is to just do very basic and practical and quite effective things.
In this News Brief, we are joined by friend of the show Zachary A. Siegel to discuss the extremely effective, extremely racist rightwing outrage over drug kits and how the Democrats refusing to defend the policy on its merits sets back harm reduction efforts.