The Origins of the Opioid Crisis with Leo Beletsky

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The drug war is a cause of, not solution to, the overdose crisis. Law and public health scholar @LeoBeletsky explains the origins of the opioid overdose crisis and how drug prohibition, policing, interdiction and incarceration are at its root—and continue to help make opioid use so deadly. Thanks to our supporters at Verso Books. Check out Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot versobooks.com/books/2571-out-of-the-wreckage Support us with your $ at Patreon.com/TheDig We can’t do this without our listeners.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on patreon.com and by Verso Books,
0:06.6	which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:12.4	One that you might like is Out of the Reckage, a New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbia.
0:19.7	A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism
0:24.7	dominates our world.
0:26.6	It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose.
0:32.0	Only a positive vision can replace it,
0:35.6	a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better
0:41.7	future. George Monbia shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology
0:50.2	cast human nature in a radically different light as supremely altruistic and cooperative.
0:57.6	He shows how we can build on these findings to create a new politics of belonging.
1:04.3	Both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganized from the bottom up,
1:10.3	enabling us to take back control
1:12.5	and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions
1:16.6	for a better society.
1:18.7	Out of the wreckage, a new politics for an age of crisis
1:22.4	by George Monbiah.
1:24.2	Out now from Verso Books.
1:35.1	Music Marnbia. Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting
1:42.2	from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:45.2	An opioid crisis is killing huge numbers of Americans, and the white face of this crisis has produced
1:54.1	a notable amount of empathetic commentary from the very political establishment that was happy to criminalize and demean black drug
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