America’s Ongoing Opioid Crisis (WBUR NPR)

Wednesday Feb 8th, 2017

Americans are dying right and left from opioids. The Oxycontin family. The heroin. Now the fentanyl, many times stronger than heroin. A new report says the fentanyl is pouring in from China. By mail and delivery service. Top destination: Ohio.  President Trump says “build a wall.” This hour On Point, we ask what it’s really going to take to stop the epidemic. Plus, Senator Elizabeth Warren, shut down on the US Senate floor last night for critiquing Senator Jeff Sessions with the words of Coretta Scott King. — Tom Ashbrook

Guests

Lauren Lindstrom, reporter at the Toledo Blade, where she writes about the opioid crisis in Ohio. (@lelindstrom)

Lenny Bernstein, health and medicine reporter at the Washington Post. (@LennyMBernstein)

Dr. Leana Wen, health commissioner for Baltimore City. Emergency physician. (@DrLeanaWen)

Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of opioid policy research at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. (@andrewkolodny)

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