Flightless Bird: Drug Rehab

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to look at drug rehab in the state of Florida. According to the CDC, since 1999 over 932,000 people have died from a drug overdose. Since 1999, overdoses involving opioids have increased eight times. With those stats came an exploration of drug rehab facilities - many of which gamed the system and became corrupt. Why did Florida end up leading America in having the most drug centers per capita? What went wrong and has it been put right? To find out, David met with a number of former patients of rehab centers to find out what’s going on in 2023.

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure
0:05.2	out what makes this country tick.
0:07.6	Now I think all of us here on Flightless Bird, Monica Dax, Rob, watched an enjoy-to-series
0:12.8	called Dope Sick.
0:14.3	Enjoyed might be the wrong word, but it was a really good show.
0:17.1	Well made, great actors.
0:19.1	Your most effective talking point are these magic words.
0:23.9	Less than 1% of people get addicted to oxy-carn.
0:27.4	It's not possible.
0:29.3	Based on the book of the same name by journalist Beth Macy, Dope Sick looked at the opioid
0:34.2	epidemic that tore across America.
0:36.8	Now according to the CDC, since 1999, the year the matrix came out, over 932,000 people
0:43.6	have died from a drug overdose in the states, and since 1999, overdoses involving opioids
0:50.2	have increased 8 times.
0:52.5	All of this led to a huge increase in drug rehab centers in the US.
0:56.8	Rises you could go to supposedly get clean.
1:07.9	Rewind 6 or 7 years.
1:10.0	Florida led America in having the most drug rehab centers per capita.
1:14.4	One rehab for every 1,549 residents.
1:22.5	It was crazy.
1:23.5	It was out of control.
1:25.1	And I wanted to find out why Florida has so many drug rehab centers, and if they're
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