The opioid debate: could reversing overdoses worsen the epidemic?

Explain It to Me

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Education, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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An economics working paper finds that access to Naloxone, a drug to reverse opioid overdoses, may increase opioid abuse. Sarah and Ezra explain the paper that started a social media firestorm — and what it means for combating the opioid epidemic. References: Doleac and Mukherjee working paper A good summary of the debate from The Atlantic Health Affairs blog post Working paper from Daniel Rees People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think A lifesaving drug for overdoses doesn’t reduce opioid deaths? Be skeptical Trump’s opioid crisis plan: more death penalty, fewer prescriptions, more treatment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I guess I should actually have the mic in front of me.
0:02.0	Well, I'm ready when everybody else is ready.
0:04.0	I'm also ready. Let's go.
0:19.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:23.0	I am Ezra Klein. I am here with Sarah Cliff.
0:26.0	Hi, Ezra.
0:27.0	Not here with Matt Iglesias.
0:28.0	He's in Wisconsin.
0:29.0	I don't care where he is. He's not here.
0:31.0	That's what matters to me.
0:33.0	It could be anywhere, but he's not here.
0:35.0	But we are here.
0:36.0	And we're really excited about this episode.
0:39.0	We, Sarah and I have been working a lot on this episode over the past couple of days.
0:43.0	We want to dive into this debate on Naloxone, which is a treatment for opioid abuse.
0:48.0	And there's been a big paper on it.
0:50.0	And it has split the public health community, split the drug treatment community, split the Twitter sphere.
0:57.0	It is the most raging debate on a working paper I've seen in a while.
1:01.0	The war is raging and the weeds is here to make sense of it all.
1:05.0	So Sarah, can you make some sense of it all?
1:07.0	I can try.
1:08.0	You can. I'll leave it in here.
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