10/16/17 -9AM- How did the opiate problem get so bad?
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I just don't understand why Congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority |
| 0:26.2 | in the height of an opioid epidemic. |
| 0:28.7 | Why do you think that is? |
| 0:31.4 | Because I think that the drug industry, the manufacturers, wholesales, distributors, |
| 0:37.6 | and chain drug stores have an influence over Congress that has never been seen before. |
| 0:45.0 | Pretty explosive story out of 60 minutes in the Washington Post about how this opioid |
| 0:50.8 | epidemic has happened and is continuing to happen. |
| 0:55.1 | And Lenny Bernstein of the Washington Post writes about health and medicine among other |
| 0:59.5 | things joins us to talk about the story. |
| 1:01.6 | Lenny, welcome. |
| 1:02.6 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:03.6 | I'm good. |
| 1:04.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.6 | And thank you for having me. |
| 1:06.6 | Oh, it's our pleasure. |
| 1:07.6 | First of all, Kudos for some really great long form serious journalism about a serious |
| 1:13.6 | issue. |
| 1:14.6 | Why don't we start with the mind-boggling numbers of people who have died in the opioid |
| 1:19.9 | epidemic? |
| 1:20.9 | Yes. |
| 1:22.7 | That is a very good place to start. |
| 1:24.7 | There have been since 2,000, 200,000 people have died just from prescription opioids. |
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