Food Science
February 9, 2018Opioid Epidemic
February 23, 2018
Food Chain Radio Show #1138
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Opiate Epidemic
Guest: Bradley DeHaven, Author How to Prevent, Detect, Treat and Live with the Addict Among Us
How did the United States become Opioid Nation?
A nation with five percent of the world’s population consumes 80% of the world’s opioids, and watches as 60,000 citizens are killed by those opioids each year.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Opioid Nation and the Opiate Epidemic
It’s a fact folks: More of us were killed by opioids in 2016 than were killed during the entire course of the Viet Nam War.
It is easy to get numbed by the numbers, so long as those numbers have not yet come to consume you or yours. But when the numbers do come to get you, they will likely turn your numbness into sheer terror.
Such was the experience of Bradley DeHaven, whose athlete son was transformed into a drug driven felon by virtue of a sports injury.
What DeHaven discovered about the opioids, and what he had to do to save his son’s freedom and life, and what it all portends for our nation, lead us to ask…
Leave a comment below: Do you know someone controlled by opioids?
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