The economic and human cost of the opioid epidemic
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode mentions heavy topics like substance use disorder and death, which some listeners might find distressing.
Last year, 80,000 Americans died due to opioid overdoses. Kimberly opens up about losing a loved one to the epidemic and highlights new research on the impact of opioids on the labor market. Plus, political prisoner Brittney Griner is home.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “Labor Market Consequences of the Opioid Tragedy” from American Action Forum
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- NEXT Distro offers free harm reduction resources
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- Never Use Alone is a 24/7 overdose response hotline
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- Find Harm Reduction Resources Near You from the National Harm Reduction Coalition
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- SAMHSA’s National Helpline 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
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- Tweet from @ABCPolitics about Brittney Griner’s homecoming
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- “Free Austin Tice” from the National Press Club
Join us tomorrow for our final episode of 2022. We’re hosting a festive Economics on Tap starting at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time/3:30 p.m. Pacific time on YouTube Live.
And if you have a holiday cocktail recipe or beer we should try, please send it our way. We’re at makemesmart@marketplace.org or (508) U-B-SMART.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Drew. |
| 0:02.0 | Before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to give you a heads up |
| 0:04.8 | that it mentions some heavy topics, like substance use disorder and death, |
| 0:08.8 | which some listeners might find distressing. |
| 0:11.1 | If you or a loved one are struggling, you can call the National Hotline at 1-800-662-HELP. |
| 0:17.6 | That's 1-800-662-4357. |
| 0:20.6 | We're also adding some resources to our show page. |
| 0:23.6 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:31.2 | Hey everybody, I'm Kyle. |
| 0:32.0 | We're just not welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:33.5 | Where we make today make sense. |
| 0:36.5 | Yes, and I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:37.8 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:39.1 | It is Thursday and we're going to do a sort of news fix, |
| 0:43.2 | not so much of a smile to be honest, but at least in acknowledgement. |
| 0:47.2 | So I know we promised smiles yesterday, but sometimes it doesn't go that way. |
| 0:50.8 | That's life. |
| 0:51.6 | I think that's a good acknowledgement, actually. |
| 0:53.1 | That sometimes it's just not there, right? |
| 0:55.2 | Sometimes it's just not there. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah, so my news fix is on the opioid epidemic. |
| 1:04.8 | And I want to point out some, a piece from the American Action Forum, |
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