Fentanyl Business Model Includes Killing Customers

What to do about fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid responsible for a continued rise in overdose deaths in New York City and across the country?

An episode of the Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast podcast, hosted by WNYC Studios, titled "Fentanyl Business Model Includes Killing Customers" was published on January 25, 2023 and runs 27 minutes.

January 25, 2023 ·27m · Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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Summary

What to do about fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid responsible for a continued rise in overdose deaths in New York City and across the country?

Episode Description

The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is responsible for a continued rise in overdose deaths in New York City and across the country.

On Today's Show:
Sam Quinones, independent journalist and the author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic and The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, and Courtney McKnight, clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at NYU's School of Global Public Health, talk about the drug and what makes it so life-threatening and resistant to efforts to stem its abuse.