Assigning Blame in the Opioid Epidemic

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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United States prosecutors are looking to hold people criminally accountable for overdose deaths. They’re settling on unexpected targets: other users. Guests: Annie Brown, a producer for “The Daily,” speaks to Kimberly Elkins, whose fiancé, Aaron Rost, died of a fentanyl overdose; Krista Powell, Mr. Rost’s sister; and Rosa Goldensohn, who has reported on the opioid crisis for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.8	This is The Daily.
0:37.5	Today, as the opioid epidemic rages on, US prosecutors are looking for somebody to blame.
0:48.0	My colleague Rosa Goldens has been reporting on their unexpected target.
1:01.7	On a day when Aaron Ross would go hunting, he would wake up early, maybe with the sun,
1:07.9	maybe before.
1:10.2	Get up, get in his orange overalls and orange pants and the matching hat.
1:17.6	He would head out the door of his little apartment in his small town of Hibbing, Minnesota
1:25.2	to go out looking for deer.
1:32.7	These are his passions hunting, being outside, fishing, which is good because that's pretty
1:39.1	much what there is to do up there, especially if you don't have a lot of money.
1:44.3	He'd spend a few hours out there, the outdoors and fresh air, and then he would come home
1:52.0	to his apartment that he shared with his fiance, Kimberly Ann Elkins.
2:00.8	You never actually got anything, but he enjoyed hunting, fishing a lot.
2:06.8	You mean you never actually shot anything?
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