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our regularly scheduled episodes and today we are thrilled to have back on the

show Friend of the Pod Zach Siegel researcher, writer living in the great city of Chicago.

And senior drug war correspondent for citations needed.

That's right, Zach's writing on public health, mental health,

addiction, drug policy, and Criminal Justice has been featured

in news outlets and magazines all over, such as The New York Times Harpers, The Atlantic,

Slate, The Nation, Scientific American, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Vulture, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other places.

He writes a newsletter at zak seagel. Substack, which you should absolutely subscribe to,

and you can follow him on the website I'll only refer to as Twitter at

Zach right stuff.

Zach thank you so much for joining us again on citations needed.

Hey hey thanks for the lovely intro.

Yeah that was one of the best ones we've ever done I I gotta be honest, those uh, that was a Jack Reacher level resume.

That's right, that's right. It'll blend in. You'll never see him again.

Two tours Afghanistan. With any luck, basically what I'm saying is that Zach's Eagle has a grel already.

His latest research, though, which is the reason we invited him back on to citations needed, was published

at the end of May by the Center for Just Journalism in a report entitled

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