Welcome to the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and your wallet.

I want you to learn ideas to me so that you can save more, spend less and don't let

anyone ever rip you off.

Clark.com is a site that I am so proud of as it's updated all the time.

Check it out to help you with money saving ideas.

Also things you should avoid like in 20 minutes and today's carcarrage is moment.

People getting ripped off as inventors or would be inventors.

It's been a problem all the way back to when I wrote my first book in 1993.

It continues to be a problem.

I want to give you an updated warning that's involved in a court case about you being careful

anytime somebody says they're going to help you with your new product or invention.

And coming up in a half hour, sending money from one person to another is getting easier

and easier and easier.

There's a new competitor launching.

I want to tell you how that industry works and what's the best deal for you and your wallet.

I want to talk about a very upsetting thing to discuss.

And that is the number of people in the United States dying from taking drugs.

Drug overdose deaths in the United States now are roughly 5,000 people a month.

5,000 a month.

And if you go back just a couple of years, it was a tiny fraction of that.

But this is because of the problems with opiate addiction in the US and the numbers are

just shattering.

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