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Hi, I'm Alex Goldman, and this is hyperfixed. Each week on our show, listeners write in with

their problems big and small, and I try to solve them, typically over the course of a single episode.

But if you've been listening for the last month, then you already know we're doing

things a bit differently right now. Over the last two episodes, we have been telling the

absolutely massive story of how an illegal drug called GS-441-524 came to save the life of a little

one-eyed cat named Otto. In the first episode, we explained how this life-saving cat drug came to save the life of a little one-eyed cat named Otto. In the first episode, we explained how this life-saving cat drug came to be illegal,

and then how a group of renegade cat lovers built a black market pipeline

to get the same illegal, life-saving drug into the hands of the people it needed.

In our second episode, we explained how this cat drug black market went the way of so many

other black markets, how in spite of so many good intentions and so much good work by so

many good people, this group of renegade cat lovers found themselves waist deep in scandal,

and how that scandal ended up tearing that group in half.

But the one thing we haven't yet explained is how just a few weeks after Otto completed his treatment regimen, this entire

black market was rendered effectively obsolete. As of right now, GS-441-524 is available in pharmacies across the country.

You can purchase it without fear of legal ramifications, and your vet can guide you through

treatment without fear of losing their license.

It's a whole new world for GS-44-524.

And today, for the final installment of this series, we're sitting down with one of the people who helped usher that new world into existence to tell you the story of how that came to be.

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