When substances are legal but dangerous

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Certain dietary supplements with an ingredient that mimics opioids are a bubbling problem for public health officials. Sometimes called “gas station heroin,” they’re sold at run-of-the-mill smoke shops and convenience stores. We’ll get into why health officials are concerned and how under-regulation can muddy our understanding of how safe a substance actually is. Then, a much needed-happy puppy story. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Utah Jazz player Kelly Olynyk and wife found dog then found her owner” from The Washington Post

- “Supreme Court to review restrictions on homeless encampments” from The Washington Post

- “More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering From Psychosis” from The Wall Street Journal

- “‘Gas-Station Heroin’ Sold as Dietary Supplement Alarms Health Officials” from The New York Times

- “Why the earliest version of Mickey Mouse is entering the public domain” from Marketplace

- “Why do we still use paper checks?” from Marketplace

- “ABBA’s Voyage concert series is making London “Money, Money, Money'” from Marketplace

- “Are we entering a world of surge dining?” from Marketplace

- “The thirst for Stanley tumblers has reached a tipping point” from The Washington Post

We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

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0:00.0	Yep, yeah. Yeah.
0:05.0	Well, it's really time to go.
0:07.0	Hello everybody, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:10.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. It is Friday, January the 12th,
0:15.4	Kai is out today, but joining me for our very first economics on tap of the year is the one,
0:21.9	the only, the wonderful Amy Scott. Hey Amy!
0:25.5	Thank you, Kimberly, happy New Year to you and to everybody. Happy
0:30.1	Friday on top of it. Thanks for joining us on the podcast
0:34.2	and on the YouTube live stream.
0:36.1	It is Friday, and of course that means it's time
0:38.0	for our weekly, happy hour episode.
0:41.3	Yes, we're going to get to some news. We're going to take a break. We're going to play a couple of rounds of half-full, half-empty, and don't forget those of you joining in the YouTube live stream chat. We'll look to your votes and hear what you have to say on our own individual
0:55.9	perspectives on the fullness or the halfness of things.
0:59.3	Anywho, before we get into it, the middleness or the madness, we're going to look at what everybody's drinking.
1:07.4	Amy, start with you. What are you having?
1:10.4	Okay, so I'm usually a couple years behind on everything, so I have recently discovered orange wine. Thanks to my colleagues in Los Angeles.
1:21.0	For those you are familiar, it's also called skin contact
1:24.8	wine and it's basically white wine that's fermented with the skins kind of like
1:30.3	red wine is but it gives some nice orange color to a white wine, and I find it quite
1:36.2	refreshing. So, cheers, how about you?
1:39.2	And you drink it cold or pool, I should say? The bottle says lightly chilled but I'm imprecise. I just stuck it in the
1:47.3	fridge. It's fine. Yeah for me it's either in the fridge or not. Like the nuances of the temperature?
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