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Co-hosts, Maureen Cavanagh and Michael Wilson, discuss the Collateral Damage created by addiction, which is currently impacting countless individuals, families, and communities nationwide.
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Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Mike and Maureen meet with Chris McGreal, a reporter for The Guardian, and author of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts to discuss the opioid epidemic and the devastating effects that it has had on our country, our communities, and the families fighting back against it.
In American Fix, Chris McGreal outlines the three main stories of the opioid epidemic: first, the negligent policies that allowed the greed and corruption of big pharma to profit off the suffering of their patients and new evidence on the FDA's complicity in the matter; second, the widespread addiction that ravaged American towns and cities; and finally, the even more devastating arrival of the drug cartels who deliberately and catastrophically exploited the market for addiction that has been created.
Through the lives of doctors, addicts, policy-makers, pharmaceutical reps, and family members, McGreal tells two parallel stories: that of the rise of opioids in the healthcare system and the personal stories of those affected on the ground, joined in what a former member of the FDA has called ""one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.""
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