Jeffrey Singer: The "Doctor for Liberty" on Opioid Abuse, Harm Reduction, and ObamaCare

Dr. Jeffrey Singer, an Arizona surgeon and Senior Fellow at the Cato
Institute, has a message that some Americans will consider a bitter pill to
swallow:

People will always use drugs, and many will harm themselves and others in
the process.

Links:

Harm Reduction: Shifting from a War on Drugs to a War on Drug-Related Deaths | Cato Institute by Jeffrey Singer, December 2018

The latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, explained — Vox

Health Care | Cato Institute

@Dr4Liberty, Follow Jeff Singer on Twitter

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Dr. Jeffrey Singer, an Arizona surgeon and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, has a message that some Americans will consider a bitter pill to swallow:

People will always use drugs, and many will harm themselves and others in the process.

The government’s response to this fact of life has been a multi-billion dollar failed War on Drugs.

The best evidence suggests that not only has this war failed to achieve its intended aim, it has actually made the problems of drug abuse and overdose worse.

The “Doctor for Liberty” returned to the show to update me on the latest research into so-called “harm reduction” strategies that have proved much more successful than the War on Drugs in limiting addiction and fatalities from heroine overdose. 

We also discussed the latest challenge to ObamaCare, which is working its way through to courts and appears likely to reach the Supreme Court before 2020. If you’ve worried about the Supreme Court becoming too political, you haven’t seen anything yet.