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#7: Paths Out of Addiction: Fantanyl, Meth, Marching Band, & Hope | Sam Quinones
100,000 Americans die of drug overdose a year. One solution, today's guest discovered, is rather dorky...
Sam Quinones spent 12 years reporting on America’s drug crisis and how heroin, fentanyl, meth have reshaped the country. In this episode, he unpacks how Mexican cartels replaced poppy fields with chemicals, lowered the price of meth by 90%, and unintentionally created a schizophrenia crisis. Since then, Sam has been on a mission to find the antidote to modern day addiction. And he found it in an unlikely source: the tuba. Yes, the musical instrument. Sam explains why marching band may…
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