Is the Opioid Epidemic a Tech Problem?

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, the link between online drug markets and America’s opioid crisis.

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For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on Twitter, Instagram, and on her website.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Manouche, the host of Note To Self, the show that looks at how technology is
0:05.3	changing our everyday lives.
0:07.9	Watch this space for new episodes coming soon, but right now you are about to hear one
0:12.3	of our most favorite episodes ever.
0:15.4	If you're hearing it for the first time, enjoy.
0:17.9	If you've heard it before, it might sound different with all the recent headlines about
0:23.3	privacy, data, and democracy.
0:25.9	There's a lot shifting right now.
0:28.3	Meanwhile, if you want to discuss further or just be in touch, you can always reach me
0:33.1	at Manouche Z, M-A-N-O-U-S-H-Z on Twitter or at Manouche Z dot com.
0:40.0	For now, thanks for listening.
0:42.2	We, I feel nervous.
0:47.5	How are we going to know when we've crossed over from the regular web to the dark web?
0:51.3	Well, we're still just in Reddit.
0:53.7	Oh.
0:55.7	Note To Self-Producer Kat Aeron and I wanted to finally see it for ourselves, the Dark Web.
1:01.7	It's a place online that you need special software called Tor, T-O-R, to access.
1:07.9	It's where websites live that Google would never index, and no one on there knows who you are.
1:17.7	Dark Web.
1:18.7	Deep Web, Dark Web.
1:19.7	They're different, I learned.
1:21.7	They are different.
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