Dr. Joycelyn Elders – Bill Clinton's Controversial Surgeon General – Ask Dr. Drew – Episode 50

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4.7 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In 1993, Dr. Joycelyn Elders was the 15th Surgeon General of the United States – the first African American and the second woman to be in charge of the US Public Health Service. As a pioneering advocate for sex education and addiction treatment, many of Dr. Elders' views were so controversial at the time that she was forced to resign as Surgeon General by 1994 – even though today, most of those same "controversial" views are now accepted as facts by the medical community. She joins Ask Dr. Drew to discuss her historic work in medicine and to offer insight about vaccine hesitancy, safe sex education, and community health issues. Currently she is a professor emerita at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Elders is a trained pediatrician, biochemist, and a Vice Admiral. Dr. Joycelyn Elders was born Minnie Lee Jones on August 13, 1933, in Schaal, Arkansas. Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation ( https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (https://twitter.com/FirstLadyOfLove). THE SHOW: For over 30 years, Dr. Drew Pinsky has taken calls from all corners of the globe, answering thousands of questions from teens and young adults. To millions, he is a beacon of truth, integrity, fairness, and common sense. Now, after decades of hosting Loveline and multiple hit TV shows – including Celebrity Rehab, Teen Mom OG, Lifechangers, and more – Dr. Drew is opening his phone lines to the world by streaming LIVE from his home studio in California. On Ask Dr. Drew, no question is too extreme or embarrassing because the Dr. has heard it all. Don’t hold in your deepest, darkest questions any longer. Ask Dr. Drew and get real answers today. This show is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. All information exchanged during participation in this program, including interactions with DrDrew.com and any affiliated websites, are intended for educational and/or entertainment purposes only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am really excited. I want to get right to my guest. This is somebody I have loved for many years.
0:05.0	Dr. Joyce and Elders, 15th Surgeon General of the United States, first African American, second
0:09.5	female, second woman in charge of the U.S. Public Health Services, advocate for sex education,
0:14.4	addiction treatment. At the time, I think she invented fake news and mob action. She was the first victim of somebody twisting into a fake news and then the mob doing their thing before social media.
0:27.8	She was in 1994 in the Clinton administration.
0:30.8	And the controversial views so called that she had back then are strictly speaking mainstream today.
0:36.0	She is currently a professor of Meredithus at the University of Arkansas School of Medical
0:39.2	Sciences.
0:40.3	She is not to be trifled with a pediatrician, a biochemist, and a vice ad.
0:45.0	Our laws as it pertain to substances are draconian and bizarre.
0:49.4	The psychopaths start this.
0:50.5	He was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography, PTSD, love addiction.
0:55.3	Fentanyl and heroin. Ridiculous. I'm a doctor for a second. Where do you think I learned that?
1:00.9	I'm just saying, you go to treatment before you kill people. I am a clinician. I observe things about
1:06.0	these chemicals. Let's just deal with what's real. We used to get these calls on Love Line all the time. Educate adolescents and to prevent and to treat. You have trouble. You can't stop and you
1:14.2	want to help stop it. I can help. I got a lot to say. I got a shout out to our good friends at Blue Mikes.
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