I Can't Fix It: A First Responder and Heroin

Death, Sex & Money

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Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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How witnessing heroin overdoses every day is affecting one paramedic in Charleston, West Virginia. Stay in the loop and subscribe to our weekly email newsletter. Every Wednesday we'll send you our favorites from the audio world, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I can't fix it. I'm treating the symptom of it. My wheelhouse is dead or alive. I walk in
0:06.9	you're almost dead, give you some medicine. Oh now you're alive. That's pleasant.
0:10.3	But you're still addicted. The problem still is there.
0:15.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:19.0	It would be murder.
0:20.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:23.0	Did you know that men with full heads of hair earn 17% more than their bald counterparts?
0:29.0	And need to talk about more.
0:30.0	Look, I'm not going to discuss my private life of total strangers.
0:34.0	I'm Anna Seal.
0:37.4	How much is heroin a part of what you do?
0:40.0	Daily.
0:41.0	Daily.
0:42.0	I think our high watermark day was 18 overdoses
0:44.4	within 24 hours.
0:46.2	This is Mark Strickland.
0:47.6	He's an EMS supervisor for the fire department
0:50.0	in Charleston, West Virginia, where I'm from.
0:52.7	These days, he spends a lot of his time reviving people
0:55.8	who've overdosed on opiates
0:57.8	and dealing with them when they wake up.
0:59.8	Having to wrestle with people, fight
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