Opioid Epidemic: How Big Pharma Created A Public Health Crisis

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Patrick Bet-David sits down with Doctor Chris Johnson to talk about the opioid epidemic currently taking place in the United States today. They go over the numbers of the people effected, how it's changed over time and why nobody has done anything about it.

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0:00.0	America has only 4.4 percent of world's population, only 4.4 percent, yet 31 percent of all opioid.
0:09.8	That's that we have around the world is from US.
0:30.1	My guest today is Dr. Chris Johnson who is an expert speaker on the opioid crisis. Public
0:42.2	help advocate, author, emergency physician, and every week we talk about who we want to bring
0:48.2	up to interview on what topic. This opioid topic came up, you know, oxycotin and many of us have
0:54.1	either had direct experience with it or an indirect experience with it. A loss of a loved one,
0:59.0	it's very painful. But one of the statistics I saw went up, there's many different things we're
1:03.4	going to get into. One of the statistics I saw him talk about was the fact that America has only
1:08.8	4.4 percent of world's population, only 4.4 percent, yet 31 percent of all opioid. That that's
1:18.0	that we have around the world is from US. So we want to find out why is US? This is not a statistic
1:23.7	we want to be leading again and he's the expert in this area. So Dr. Chris Johnson, thank you so much
1:28.1	for making the time for being a guest on vitamin. Well thank you for inviting me, I appreciate it.
1:32.5	Yeah, I mean that talk you gave on TEDx TED talks was what you had obviously you have a charisma,
1:39.5	you have charm, but the statistics I was looking at I'm like you got to be kidding me why are we
1:42.4	not talking about this. So would you mind taking a moment and telling the audience your background,
1:47.3	obviously I have it here, you garnered the first a physician award in 2017, you you've spoken
1:52.8	to FDA advisory committees, you've spoken to a bunch of different groups, but give us your history
1:58.6	and what got you to be wanting to do more research on this specific topic.
2:03.9	Well as you mentioned my background is emergency medicine and I'm a practitioner here in the
2:10.2	Twin Cities in Minnesota and it might be a little bit unusual that some would find like why is an
2:16.7	emergency medicine physician talking about this should we be talking to a pain physician or we
2:21.3	should we be talking to addiction physicians and then there's certainly our experts in that in
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