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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Opioid Addiction

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sawbones, join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a sobering look at America's opioid crisis. The bad news: We're all still living in a Sawbones episode. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Transcript

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0:00.0

Saubones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

0:07.0

It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

0:14.0

We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

0:22.0

You're worth it.

0:25.0

Alright, Tommy is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:33.0

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

The medicine, the medicine, the escalant macaw for the mouth.

1:03.0

Hello, everybody and welcome to Saubones, a marital tour of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

1:09.0

And I'm Sydney McAroy. Hi, Sid. Hi, Justin. How you doing? I'm pretty good.

1:14.0

We had an eventful Thursday last Thursday. Last Thursday. Yeah, last Thursday.

1:21.0

We, the president of America came here, Tony, to us Virginia. Yes. We, it was, it's my long day at work Thursdays. I always have extra long days.

1:33.0

So the president came on Thursday and Justin and I tried to scramble to leave our respective jobs and get there by the time to protest.

1:45.0

And then by the time we left, the motorcade was coming and we couldn't get across how great and actually biceps our entire city.

1:55.0

Exactly. The motorcade path. Yes, the entire city was cut in half and you could not cross from one side to the other.

2:01.0

We were stuck on our, at least on the side where our home is. That's nice. Yeah.

2:05.0

But we couldn't get there. We couldn't get there.

2:08.0

But obviously we were familiar with what was talked about what was said. It was broadcast here locally.

2:15.0

As you can imagine, in many people attended. And one concern that I know I had and Justin, I think probably you two.

2:23.0

And most people actually, it was written about the newspaper. So not just me. This isn't like a novel concern.

2:29.0

Is that the president had said he was going to make some kind of special announcement.

2:35.0

Right. And a lot of people in this area were kind of hoping it would be opioid addiction related because it is devastating our area.

2:44.0

There'd recently been recommendations made to the president by the council on substance abuse that it should actually be declared a state of emergency.

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