President Trump revealed a new plan to tackle the opioid crisis in the US: offering the death penalty to certain drug dealers responsible for hundreds of deaths via their illegal distribution of these drugs. Host Dan Loney talks with Dr. Evan Anderson, Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Senior Fellow at Penn’s Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI), and Dr. Anita Gupta, Princeton University Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, to discuss Trump’s plan and additional elements around this issue such as how current and future patients who may need opioids for pain relief will be treated on Knowledge at Wharton.
March 26, 2018
• 24 min listen
with Dr. Evan Anderson & Dr. Anita Gupta
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