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How Can We Address Xylazine Usage And The Opioid Crisis?
How Can We Address Xylazine Usage And The Opioid Crisis?
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Apr 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Public health and drug enforcement officials are raising alarms about a veterinary tranquilizer known as Xylazine. Reset hears from Matt Kiefer, digital editor for WBEZ, and Dr. David A. Ansell, Professor of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, about how substance is impacting the opioid epidemic and what health and community organizers are doing to address it. Then they talk to Lindsay Allen, health economist, assistant professor in Northwest, and Vauna Hernandez, executive director of Phoenix House, about how expanding medicaid for residential treatment centers could help the opioid crisis.
Released:
Apr 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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