Addicted and alone

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The pandemic wiped out the slow but steady progress America had been making against another deadly disease: opioid addiction. The Washington Post’s Peter Jamison explains. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for
0:04.4	that I don't know whether I'm Rick, Morty.
0:07.3	All myself.
0:08.5	Am I Rick?
0:09.6	Am I Morty?
0:10.7	Am I me?
0:12.0	Am I Rick?
0:12.9	Am I Morty?
0:14.0	Am I me?
0:15.2	I don't know.
0:16.4	Watch now on all four.
0:18.0	The UK's biggest free streaming service.
0:20.4	Watch and rewatch.
0:21.5	Watch and rewatch.
0:22.2	Watch and rewatch.
0:22.8	Go for me.
0:23.6	Compare channel 4.com slash verify.
0:34.9	It's hard to tackle two crises at once.
0:38.8	Since March of 2020, all eyes have been on the pandemic and we still lost
0:44.4	hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States.
0:48.0	And all that attention on the coronavirus meant much less attention
0:52.3	on the opioid crisis.
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