Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Charles Fan Lehman. Charles is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Joining me on the show today is

Charles Van Lehmann. Charles is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of

City Journal. His work focuses on a variety of issues, policing, public safety, drug abuse,

and he's appeared in a number of publications, including the Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, National Review, and, of course, City Journal.

He's discussed public safety policy before the House of Representatives and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is a 202324 Robert Novak fellow with the Fund

for American Studies.

Today we're going to be discussing his recent writing on the nation's increasingly dire crisis

of drug overdose.

So Charles, great to have you back on 10 blocks.

Absolutely.

Always glad to be here.

So, you know, this current crisis does seem a little different, at least in the way it's

being perceived to pass drug crisis is, you know, when the chief impact or the focus was

on social health or individual health.

So, you know, whether this was physical illness, social dysfunction, freight relationships, public disorder,

all of that's part of what's going on today.

But as you've been emphasizing, you know, the real outcome is death in a

striking way.

Fatal drug overdoses have risen exponentially over the past, you know, a decade and a half,

probably, maybe a little longer.

They're now the leading cause of non-medical death in the United States.

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