AMERICAN DIAGNOSIS with Dr. Celine Gounder
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsThe podcast formerly known as IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH.
Who gets to be healthy? who doesn’t? and what can we do about it? Money, education, gender, age, race—they all have something to do with it. But we’re talking about the divide between the people who’ll live long and healthy lives and those who won’t. Poor health? It isn’t random. Join Dr. Celine Gounder for fresh angles, deep research, a wide range of voices, and compassionate reporting on how we can heal the nation.
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introducing EPIDEMIC — a new podcast with Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain
February 28, 2020 20:44 - 2 minutes - 3.99 MBEPIDEMIC is a new, weekly podcast on the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19). Hear from some of the world’s leading infectious disease and public health experts. We’ll help you understand the latest science, the bigger context, and bring you diverse angles—from history and anthropology to politics and economics—depth and texture you won’t get elsewhere. Hosted by Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist who has worked on tuberculosis and HIV in sub-Saharan Afr...
S3E36 / Gun Violence in America / Where do we go from here?
February 13, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBTomorrow is the second anniversary of the Parkland shooting. How have the survivors channeled their grief into advocacy? What were some of the tough lessons they had to learn about inclusion along the way? And how do we all move forward as a nation together? Guests: David Hogg and Tyah-Amoy Roberts, student members of the Board of Directors of the March for Our Lives and survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting; David Yamane, Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest Unive...
S3E35 / Gun Violence in America / Here All Along
February 06, 2020 10:30 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBBlack and brown communities have borne the brunt of gun violence for decades. But when it comes to the national debate about gun safety or gun violence prevention, their efforts have largely been overlooked. Now that new constituencies have come to the table, how do we make sure POC don’t just have a seat, but a real voice? Guests: Kayla Hicks, Director of African-American & Community Outreach for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV); Reverend Jeffrey Brown, Baptist minister and Preside...
S3E35 / Gun Violence in America / Here all along
February 06, 2020 10:30 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBBlack and brown communities have borne the brunt of gun violence for decades. But when it comes to the national debate about gun safety or gun violence prevention, their efforts have largely been overlooked. Now that new constituencies have come to the table, how do we make sure POC don’t just have a seat, but a real voice? Guests: Kayla Hicks, Director of African-American & Community Outreach for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV); Reverend Jeffrey Brown, Baptist minister and Preside...
S3E34 / Gun Violence in America / #ThisIsOurLane
January 16, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBJoseph Sakran was shot in the neck as a teenager. He went on to become a trauma surgeon. When the NRA tweeted doctors should "stay in their lane," Joseph and others were outraged. Joseph started #ThisIsOurLane, an umbrella for health care providers and all the other communities who've lived and borne witness to gun violence. Guests: Dr. Joseph Sakran, Director of Emergency General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Dr. Damon Clark, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and Associate Medica...
S3E33 / Gun Violence in America / #Vets4GunReform
January 09, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBVets know guns and gunfights better than most of us. Guns are a big part of their identity. So why have so many stepped up to speak out in favor of gun safety and gun reform? Guests: Peter Lucier, Marine veteran, Afghanistan; Kyleanne Hunter, Vice President of Programs for the Brady Campaign, U.S. Marine Corps Legislative Liaison Officer, and Marine combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan; Joseph Plenzler, former Marines’ commandant spokesman at the Pentagon, and Marine veteran, Iraq...
S3E32 / Gun Violence in America / Badass Moms & Youth
December 19, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBFor a long time, there was a passion gap between the gun-rights and gun violence prevention movements. But then Sandy Hook and Parkland sparked a change… for moms and youth. Guests: Allison Volkmann, Project Director for the Doctors for America Gun Violence Prevention Initiative; Anneliese Dickman, Milwaukee Program Manager for the Brady Campaign’s Combating Crime Guns Initiative; Penelope Spurr and Eli Counce, co-founders of Students for Change; and Michelle Roehm McCann, a children’s book ...
S3E31 / Gun Violence in America / The American Gun Movements
December 05, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBMany social movements—including civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and environmental protection—have their origins in the 1960s. In the aftermath of the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, the NRA joined the American Culture Wars and became the militant gun-rights advocacy organization we know today. But there hasn't been an analogous gun violence prevention movement... at least until now. What changed and why? Guests: Kristin Goss, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at...
S3E31 / Gun Violence in America / The Gun Violence Prevention Movement
December 05, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBMany social movements—including civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and environmental protection—have their origins in the 1960s. In the aftermath of the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, the NRA joined the American Culture Wars and became the militant gun-rights advocacy organization we know today. But there hasn't been an analogous gun violence prevention movement... at least until now. What changed and why? Guests: Kristin Goss, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at...
#GivingTuesday
December 03, 2019 11:00 - 1 minute - 2.42 MBHi, everyone. Dr. Celine Gounder, here. I’m the host of “In Sickness and in Health.” On this #GivingTuesday, I’d like to say thank you for being a listener… and for your support. Right before the Thanksgiving holiday, I read a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that reminded me why I do this show. The report was about a big change in American health…. And the news… isn’t good. Americans… for the first time since the end of the second world war… are dying younger t...
S3E30 / Gun Violence in America / What the Swiss can teach us
November 14, 2019 10:00 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBSwitzerland has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world. The United States is the only other developed country with more guns per capita than Switzerland. And yet, Switzerland has one of the world's lowest crime and gun homicide rates in the world. Is there a way to have a strong gun culture without gun violence? Guests: Nora Markwalder, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and Criminology, Universität St. Gallen; Thomas Reisch, Professor of Psychiatry, ...
S3E29 / Gun Violence in America / Lock It Up
October 31, 2019 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBAmericans have the right to own guns. But what responsibilities do gun owners have? to themselves? their families? and their communities? Guests: Tony Gomez, Manager of Seattle & King County's Violence and Injury Prevention Unit; Cassandra Crifasi, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Deputy Director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research, and a law-abiding gun owner; Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Wa...
S3E28 / Gun Violence in America / Trusted Messengers
October 17, 2019 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBGun owners, their kids, and their families and friends are dying from gun-related suicides. By the numbers, this is the biggest gun violence problem we've got. We live in two very different worlds when it comes to guns in the U.S. The people for whom their only experience of guns is as a problem… and the people for whom guns will never be a problem… until… they are. What can we say to gun owners to help them understand that we care about their safety? Who the messenger is—that matters. Guest...
S3E27 / Gun Violence in America / The Devil's in the Details: Red Flag Laws Part II
October 03, 2019 09:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBSeventeen states and DC have red flag laws, aka Extreme Risk Protection Orders. But it's not enough to pass a law. That's just the beginning of the work that needs to be done. Guests: Tami Tunnell and Peter Contos, Illinois Coalition Against Handgun Violence; Shannon Frattaroli, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Kimberly Wyatt, Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, King County Prosecutor's Office. | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glow.fm/insicknessan...
S3E26 / Gun Violence in America / See Something, Say Something: Red Flag Laws Part I
September 19, 2019 09:00 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBExtreme risk protection orders, aka red flag laws, have been passed in 17 states and DC, and now Congress is considering a federal red flag law. But how do Extreme Risk Protection Orders work? And do they save lives? Guests: Jeffrey Swanson, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine; Amy Barnhorst, Vice Chair for Community Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis; Julia Spoor, Founder of Students Dema...
S3E25 / Gun Violence in America / The Psychology of Mass Shooters
September 05, 2019 09:00 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBSaying mass shooters are “evil” is overly simplistic and doesn’t do much to prevent them from killing. But understanding what they have in common, like suicidality, may help us intervene before it’s too late. Guests: Sue Klebold, the mother of one of the Columbine shooters, a suicide prevention activist, author of A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, and TEDMED 2016 speaker; Adam Lankford, Professor of Criminology at The University of Alabama; Jillian Peterson, Assistant...
S3E24 / Gun Violence in America / Why do people die by suicide?
August 22, 2019 08:00 - 21 minutes - 29.4 MBPeople die by suicide when they think they’re a burden on others, when they’re socially isolated, and when they have the ability to injure themselves lethally. Dying by suicide is really hard to do. It's not an impulsive act. You need to have the knowledge and means to act on your feelings – with lethality. Guests: Thomas Joiner, Professor of Psychology at Florida State University and author of "Why Do People Die by Suicide?", and Michael Anestis, Associate Professor of Psychology at the Uni...
S3E23 / Gun Violence in America / Lives in Blue
August 08, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBWith almost 400 million guns in the U.S., law enforcement officers have good reason to fear for their lives. Every civilian they encounter in the line of duty could be armed and dangerous. Guests: Mark Jones, retired ATF agent and Senior Policy Advisor to the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence; Franklin Zimring, Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and author of The Great American Crime Decline; David Swedler, Associate Research Scientist at the Pacific Institu...
S3E22 / Gun Violence in America / Law Enforcement in the Digital Age
July 25, 2019 11:40 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBHave we entered the era of Minority Report and “true crime”? Yes… and no. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, facial recognition, and IPOs are very much part of the story, but so are paper records and microfiche. American law enforcement straddles the digital age… and the stone age. Guests: Paul Neudigate, Assistant Police Chief, Cincinnati Police Department; Charles West, Former Director of Innovation with the Mayor’s Office in New Orleans; and Mark Jones, retired ATF agent and forme...
S3E21 / Gun Violence in America / Law & Order?
July 11, 2019 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBCops are supposed to enforce laws, reduce crime, and make communities safer. But what happens when cops don’t make people feel safe? When people don’t trust the police? When cynicism about the legal system sets in? And when, as in the case of the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, the cops are criminals? Guests: Daniel Webster, Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research, and TEDMED 2014 speaker; Justin Fenton, crime repor...
S3E20 / Gun Violence in America / The Science of Soft Policing
June 27, 2019 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBWe typically think of policing as something that’s done by police officers. But what if the most important policing… is self-policing... by individuals and communities? Guests: Sirena Cotton, Founder of Roc the Peace in Rochester; Harold Pollack, Professor at the University of Chicago, and Co-Director of the Crime Lab and Health Lab; Patrick Sharkey, Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University, and author of An Uneasy Peace and Stuck in Place; Patricia Rogers, E...
S3E19 / Gun Violence in America / A Tale of Two Cities
June 15, 2019 21:40 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBUp until recently, Oakland and New Orleans shared something in common: they had some of the highest murder rates in the country. They implemented some of the same strategies focused on high-risk individuals, but gun shootings and homicides dipped in one city, but in the other, not. Why the difference? Guests: Vaughn Crandall, Co-Director of the California Partnership for Safe Communities; Barbara Lafitte-Oluwole with Oakland Community Organizations; Michael McLively, Director of Giffords Law...
S3E18 / Gun Violence in America / Gangs
May 30, 2019 09:00 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBUrban gun violence is driven by small groups of high-risk individuals—what some of us call "gangs." They're high-risk for perpetrating violence and for being shot and killed. Guests: David M. Kennedy, Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and author of Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America; Stan Ross, Program Manager, Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Vi...
S3E17 / Gun Violence in America / How do criminals get their guns?
May 16, 2019 09:00 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBHow are guns transmitted from person-to-person? How do they make their way from legal sources into the hands of criminals, and how we can block that transmission? Guests: Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek, Johnson County, Iowa; Daniel Webster, Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research, and TEDMED 2014 speaker; Cassandra Crifasi, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Deputy Director of the C...
S3E16 / Gun Violence in America / Violence Is Contagious
May 02, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBGun violence isn’t random. Both guns and violence spread like infectious diseases through social networks—in the real world and online. Understanding how gun violence spreads can help us control the contagion. Guests: Gary Slutkin, Founder of Cure Violence, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and TEDMED 2013 speaker; Andrew Papachristos, Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University; Desmond Patton, Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University; a...
S3E15 / Gun Violence in America / The Big Australian Buyback
April 18, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBAustralia shares a similar history and culture to our own. But yet after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, Australians came to see the need for gun regulation very differently. Australia’s newly elected conservative prime minister at the time passed sweeping gun reform. How did that real-world experiment play out? What happens when you reduce the number of guns in a country nationwide? Guests: Rebecca Peters, former Chair of the Australian National Coalition for Gun Control, and former Direc...
S3E14 / Gun Violence in America / The Instrumentality of Guns
April 04, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBIn the late 1950s, England and Wales switched from coal-based gas to natural gas in their ovens, which was a lot less toxic. Suicide rates dropped dramatically. This has a lot to teach us about gun violence. Instrumentality refers to how good a weapon is as an instrument of killing. Gas was cheap, available and lethal — as are guns in the U.S. today. So how can we reduce the instrumentality of a weapon? Guests: Ronald Clarke, Professor and former Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rut...
S3E13 / Gun Violence in America / In the Eye of the Beholder
March 21, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBThe majority of Americans with guns own them for self-defense. But how common is defensive gun use? And what do these self-defense incidents look like? Guests: David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and the author of Private Guns, Public Health; Sara Solnick, Chair of Economics at the University of Vermont; Gary Kleck, Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Florida State University, and author of Point Blank: Guns and Violence in ...
S3E12 / Gun Violence in America / More Guns = More or Less Crime?
March 07, 2019 08:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBSince the late 1990s, two economists have dueled over whether more guns lead to more or less crime. In this episode, you’ll hear from both and learn whose science prevails. Guests: John Donohue III, economist, Professor of Law at Stanford University, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and John Lott, economist, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, FoxNews.com columnist, and author of More Guns, Less Crime. | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glo...
S3E11 / Gun Violence in America / Carrying A Gun While Black
February 21, 2019 08:00 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MBHow do you walk that fine line of being black and carrying a gun? with law enforcement? and the public at large? Can it be done? Guests: Justin McFarlin, U.S. Army veteran, and founding member of Everytown USA’s Veterans Advisory Council; Maj Toure, Founder of Black Guns Matter; and Jennifer Carlson, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, and author of Citizen Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline. | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glow.fm/...
S3E10 / Gun Violence in America / This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed
February 07, 2019 08:00 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBThe Civil Rights Movement is famous for its nonviolent tactics, but was it really nonviolent? What role did guns play? Can you have a nonviolent movement and still be armed? Guests: Charles E. Cobb, journalist, author of “This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed,” and former activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and Akinyele Umoja, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University, author of “We Will Shoot Back,” and founding member of the ...
S3E9 / Gun Violence in America / Why Blacks Need(ed) Guns
January 24, 2019 08:00 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBThe black tradition of gun ownership is as long as our nation's history. But Blacks' rights to carry guns have been challenged at every turn. What's that history? And how did it inform attitudes among Civil Rights leaders and beyond? Guests: Nicholas Johnson, Professor of Law, Fordham University; Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Social Sciences, University of Alabama; Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University. ...
S3E8 / Gun Violence in America / Good Guys with Guns & Bad Guys with Guns
January 10, 2019 08:00 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBWhat does it mean to be a “good guy with a gun” versus a “bad guy with a gun,” and how can you tell them apart? Who are the “sheep,” the “sheepdogs,” and the “wolves”? What does it mean to be law-abiding or not? And how much is the desire to own a gun about self-defense versus identity? Guests: Alexandra Filindra, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago; Angela Stroud, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Justice, Northland College; Mary Anne Fran...
BONUS: Dr. Gounder's Keynote at the Institute for Health Improvement's meeting in 12/2018
January 07, 2019 02:15 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBHappy New Year! Here’s a post-holiday bonus episode before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming next week. In December 2018, I gave a keynote address at the Institute for Health Improvement’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. I talked about the importance of storytelling in medicine… why health care providers need to share their personal stories and bear witness. Have a listen… and please tune in again later this week!
S3E7 / Gun Violence in America / She's got a gun.
December 20, 2018 08:00 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBMany Americans hold dear the right to a gun for self-defense, and the passage of Stand-Your-Ground laws has expanded the right to use deadly force in self-defense in many states. But what happens when a woman uses SYG to protect herself from intimate partner violence? Guests: Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University; Callie Adams, former Marine, survivor of intimate partner violence, and cleared of murdering her husband; Mary Anne Franks,...
S3E6 / Gun Violence in America / He's got a gun.
December 06, 2018 08:00 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBThere’s an important link between intimate partner violence (i.e. domestic violence) and gun violence. The majority of mass shootings occurs in the context of intimate partner violence. And women are most likely to be killed by an intimate partner — a husband, ex-husband, boyfriend or ex-boyfriend — than by anyone else. Guests: Jacquelyn Campbell, Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Ruth Glenn, CEO of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and a survivor o...
S3E5 / Gun Violence in America / "Boys will be boys."
November 22, 2018 08:00 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBWhy are guns a symbol, for many, of masculinity? Are boys and men more violent? Or do they turn to violence and guns as tools in the absence of other alternatives to dealing with their problems? Guests: Niobe Way, Professor of Developmental Psychology at New York University, author of Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and The Crisis of Connection, and TEDMED 2018 speaker; Benjamin Sledge, former Army Special Operations Command and recipient of the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and two Army Commend...
S3E4 / Gun Violence in America / Gun Culture 2.0
November 08, 2018 08:00 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBWhy do people own guns and how do they use them? What do guns mean to the people who own them? and to those who don’t? And is there anyone who can help bridge those worlds? Guests: David Yamane, Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University, and an expert on Gun Culture 2.0 and the rise of guns as tools for self-defense; Kevin Creighton, a gun enthusiast and writer for Ricochet.com, NRA Family and Shooting Illustrated; and Chris Marvin, former army officer, Black Hawk helicopter pilot, an...
S3E3 / Gun Violence in America / Guns & Honor
October 25, 2018 07:00 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MBWhat is honor? When is it OK to use violence? And how do these ideas influence regional attitudes about guns and our nation’s laws? Guests: Eric Ruben, Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law, and an expert on weapons law and the Second Amendment; Dov Cohen, Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an expert on honor, dignity and face cultures; Ryan P. Brown, Managing Director for Measurement a...
S3E2 / Gun Violence in America / A Uniquely American Compromise
October 11, 2018 11:24 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBWhere does our Second Amendment come from? English law, like so many of our other laws? Or is it a uniquely American compromise? Guests: Lois Schwoerer, Professor Emerita of History at George Washington University and Scholar-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library; Carl Bogus, Professor of Law at Roger Williams University; and Alex Trimble Young, an expert on transnational settler colonialism at Arizona State University. | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glow.fm/insicknessandinhea...
S3E1 / Gun Violence in America / An Unlikely Friendship
September 27, 2018 07:00 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBIt's hard to imagine finding common ground on the problem of gun violence. In the 1990s, Dr. Mark Rosenberg and former Congressman Jay Dickey (R-AR) were "arch enemies." But over time, the "curly-haired, liberal, Jewish kid" and the "lifelong NRA member" became good friends. Science helped them bridge the gap, and together they proposed a way forward: a way to balance gun safety... and gun rights. Guest: Dr. Mark Rosenberg, President and CEO of the Task Force for Global Health, and the found...
S2E13 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / Religion, Responsibility, Blame & Shame
July 12, 2018 04:28 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBIs drug use immoral? Can religious leaders and communities help people recover from addiction? And can we hold people responsible without blame and shame? Guests: Pastor Steve Gallimore, Tennessee Valley Community Church; Kayla Kalel, in recovery from opioid addiction and a volunteer for Young People in Recovery; Bill Kinkle, health care provider who's in recovery from opioid addiction; Father Luis Barrios, Holyrood Episcopal Church-Iglesia Santa Cruz and co-founder of St. Ann's Corner of Ha...
S2E12 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / Can we sue our way out of the opioid crisis?
June 12, 2018 20:24 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIs anyone to blame for the opioid overdose epidemic? Should we be going after white-collar criminals like pharmaceutical company executives, distributors and doctors? What can we learn from the lawsuits against Big Tobacco? And will suing Big Pharma help get us out of this crisis? Guests: David Courtwright, Professor of History at the University of North Florida; Joe Rice, a lead negotiator in the Big Tobacco, BP Oil Spill, 9/11 victims and asbestos manufacturer settlements; James Tierney, f...
S2E11 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / This Is America: Race and the War on Drugs
May 22, 2018 23:05 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBThe U.S.'s unique history of slavery and race relations have played no small part in how we approach drug abuse and addiction differently from other developed countries—from the supposed “Negro cocaine fiends” of the early Jim Crow era… to the “law-and-order” politics that emerged, partly, in response to the race riots of the Civil Rights years… to “crack babies” in the '80s. But our history may, finally, be changing. Guests: Ekow Yankah, Professor of Law and Criminal Theory at Yeshiva Unive...
S2E10 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / What comes after you survive an overdose?
May 04, 2018 17:15 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBNaloxone can save the lives of drug users from deadly overdose, but what happens after someone survives an overdose? Does naloxone give users a false sense of security, encouraging them to use more? Guests: Jonathan Goyer, manager of Anchor MORE at the Providence Center, a drug recovery program, and advisor to the Rhode Island governor’s overdose taskforce; and Dr. Julie Donohue, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glow.fm...
S2E9 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / Sharing Opana & Syringes in Small Town Indiana
April 20, 2018 15:12 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBOpioid abuse is affecting small towns across the U.S. in unprecedented ways. In 2015, Austin, Indiana was ground zero for one of the biggest HIV outbreaks in U.S. history -- the end result of sharing Opana and syringes. Guests: Bekki, a resident of Austin and mother to an injection drug user who got HIV; Dr. Will Cooke, the only doctor in Austin; Wayne Crabtree, Director of the Office of Addiction Services at Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness; and Dr. Carolyn Wester, the Medical Di...
S2E8 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / Drugs to *treat* addiction?
March 15, 2018 19:31 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBMedications can play an important role in helping people recover from addiction. And sometimes, those medications can be the very drug they’re trying to quit. We talk about medication-assisted treatment -- from methadone and buprenorphine to heroin and hydromorphone. Guests: Dr. Mark Tyndall, Director of the British Columbia Center for Disease Control in Canada and TEDMED 2017 speaker; Paul Cherashore with the Philadelphia Overdose Prevention Initiative; and Dr. Barbara Broers, Director of t...
S2E7 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / A Safe Space to Use Drugs
February 21, 2018 16:23 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBWhat if we gave drug users a clean, safe place to use? out of the alleys and off the streets? Could that be the first rung on the ladder to recovery? Or would we be creating magnets for drug-related crime? Guests: Liz Evans, co-founder of Vancouver’s InSite, the first supervised consumption site in North America; Linda Rosenthal, New York State assembly woman representing the 67th district in Manhattan and TEDMED 2017 speaker; Patricia Sully a staff attorney for the Public Defender Associati...
S2E6 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / Cops as social workers?
February 21, 2018 16:04 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBWhat if the criminal justice system emphasized housing and social services over crime and punishment? Guests: Amy Kroll, administrator for re-entry services in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Dr. João Castel-Branco Goulão, the national drug coordinator for Portugal and the architect of Portugal's drug policy; and Kris Nyrop, national support director for Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD). | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glow.fm/insicknessandinhealth | #Opioid #Opiate #OpioidCris...
S2E5 / The Opioid Overdose Crisis / Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
January 17, 2018 19:22 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBIn the 1990s, researchers recruited 17,000 adults to answer questions about childhood stressors and trauma and their health. What does this groundbreaking research -- the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study -- show us about how to treat substance abuse? Guests: Phillip Fiuty, Coordinator for Harm Reduction Programs at Santa Fe Mountain Center, and in recovery from substance abuse; Dr. Daniel Sumrok, Director of the Center for Addiction Science at the University of Tennessee Health Sci...