DBHEDD is reminding Georgians to ask their doctor about alternatives to opioid pain medication.

Alternatives such as over-the-counter medications and physical therapy can be used to manage pain.

More information at opioid response. info.

Whoa, hold, hold, hold on.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on there.

We're all overjoyed to have that drive-by-trucker song as our theme music, but we need some music that's

a little more specific to what we're talking about today.

What about, uh, maybe this? take my mind.

No, let her memory torture me.

Now that works. That was Mr. Willie Nelson and this is the Bitter Southerner

podcast from Georgia Public Broadcasting in the magazine I edit The Bitter

Southerner. My name's Chuck Reese Welcome to episode three of our first season.

Whiskey River Don't Run Drive. And yes we are talking about whiskey today, actually spirits of all kinds.

Now, I know that some of you listeners

to our new podcast might not necessarily

be readers of the bitter southerner.

But the people who have been readers for a while know that we try to

cover the culture of the South from every angle. We come at the peculiarities and

wonderments of this region both broadly and deeply.

But I have a confession to make.

We didn't begin with those big intentions.

The original idea was just to do a little blog about southern bartenders and that's where our name came from,

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