Special Episode (with Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta)
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4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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DeRay interviews Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta about opioid addiction and Project Lazerus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Dure. I'm working on positive view. On this episode, it's a special |
| 0:06.8 | episode. It's just our interview with Dr. Deskrupter who runs the Aloxone |
| 0:10.7 | Buyer's Club. I will tell you, I came across the Buyer's Club and Dr. Deskrupter |
| 0:16.4 | in it blew my mind. This is an episode that I want to make sure that you tell |
| 0:21.5 | everybody about that you make sure that you're legislators, |
| 0:24.8 | you're mayor, your governor, that they get on it to fix the problem. If you, |
| 0:28.9 | your life has been touched by addiction, this is an important episode |
| 0:32.3 | around solutions and things that will help save people's lives. My life has been |
| 0:36.4 | touched by addiction. This is personal for me. I want to make sure that you listen after the break. |
| 0:50.4 | This is your personal to me. I want to make sure that you listen to this conversation in that |
| 0:54.8 | you can help us fix a problem that will save people's lives. Here we go. |
| 1:03.1 | Dr. Deskrupter, thanks so much for joining us now and positive to people. My pleasure, |
| 1:06.7 | thanks for having me. So I've been looking forward to, I mean, I've talked to you a lot recently, |
| 1:12.0 | but that's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. |
| 1:13.3 | forward to this interview because I am just fascinated by the work you do. Can you |
| 1:18.4 | stop by telling us how did you get into work around addiction? Like what was your story |
| 1:22.9 | like getting to this face? So I was working in a cardboard box factory in Maine and it was between |
| 1:29.8 | my college and grad school and I saw people using OxyContin to be able to function at their job. |
| 1:37.1 | At the same time, I had friends from high school who were using OxyContin in ways that, |
| 1:43.0 | you know, made them more at risk and we're causing all sorts of problems in their life. |
| 1:47.6 | So that was kind of the personal side. When I got to grad school, I had to do an internship |
| 1:54.4 | and ended up going back to Maine and studying OxyContin and heroin as a problem and ended up |
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