Manic Investigative Phase (with Stephanie Wittels Wachs)

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Wittels Wachs (@wittelstephanie) joins Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) to discuss her new podcast Last Day on Lemonada Media. Stephanie’s brother, comedian Harris Wittels, died in an overdose, and now she’s exploring the opiate epidemic person by person. It’s a way of both normalizing and investigating what’s happening across America with our secret pandemic. Stephanie and Ana pick apart the systems that rewire the human brain via addiction, and the new-wiring it takes to correct for these changes. It’s a painfully personal journey and we appreciate you coming along for the ride. Stories can always go a different way, and every story is worth telling. Harris on You Made It Weird: https://archive.nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-236-harris-wittels-returns/Training for NARCAN: https://www.getnaloxonenow.org/#homeNA: https://www.na.org/AA: https://www.aa.org/Al-anon: https://al-anon.org/Last Day: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/last-day/id1468896686 Bit of housekeeping: We at Crooked Media are teaming up with Stacey Abrams for Fair Fight 2020. We’re trying to donate at least a million dollars towards her five million dollar goal. Please donate here and encourage others to join in. Thanks to our sponsors! Grove.co is where you’ll find the best home and personal care products online, because Grove believes a healthy, beautiful home should be accessible to everyone. Every product at Grove has been rigorously tested for health, effectiveness, and environmental impact. Try Grove with a free five piece fall gift set from Mrs. Meyer’s and Grove, free shipping and a free 60-day VIP trial! Grove.co/FRIENDS. Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of amazing classes in everything from photography and creative writing to design, productivity and more. Skillshare is offering our listeners two months of unlimited access to thousands of classes for free. To sign up, go to Skillshare.com/FRIENDS. Politicon is the Unconventional Political Convention, arriving at Music City Center in Nashville, TN on October 26 & 27. It’s a full weekend of panels, debates, town halls, expos, podcasts, book signings, comedy, and more. Ana will be on a panel about the Cult of Trump, and then will be recording a live show of With Friends Like These. Tickets are available at politicon.com

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox and welcome to With Friends Like These.
0:09.0	You know, a theme of this show, whether you notice it or not, is harm reduction.
0:14.4	How do we reduce the harms we do to each other?
0:18.2	How do we reduce the harms we do to ourselves?
0:22.8	This episode is a little bit more explicitly about harm reduction.
0:27.6	It's an interview with Stephanie Woodles-Wax.
0:30.0	She has a new podcast coming out that you've heard me talk about before.
0:33.1	It's called Last Day.
0:34.3	It's about people's last day on Earth and this season is about people who have died
0:39.7	of opioid overdoses.
0:42.3	Stephanie Woodles-Wax lost her brother Harris to an opioid overdose.
0:47.8	And I have very nearly lost someone dear to me.
0:51.7	If her show sounds like it might be kind of to put it frankly a downer.
0:58.3	And if this episode sounds like it might be a downer, I want to assure you of a couple
1:03.9	things.
1:04.9	One, it's not.
1:09.9	It's possible to talk about these things and keep a sense of humor and tact.
1:14.1	That's one of the things I've learned in the rooms of AA.
1:17.4	And the other thing I want to tell you is it's okay if you don't want to listen right
1:20.5	now.
1:21.5	It's a traditional content warning, but it's one all throughout there anyway.
1:25.3	This is an explicit conversation about overdoses and addiction and death.
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