The Opioid Crisis Is Way More Complicated Than We Think

As the opioid crisis continues to worsen, Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and at NYU Wagner and author of Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Mary Harris, WNYC's health reporter, discuss the president's decision to not declare a national emergency, his law and order approach to combat it, the under reporting of overdose deaths, and more about opioid addiction treatment and policy. Kleiman and Harris explain that the opioid crisis as we've been talking about it in the past is misleading, since it is a lot more complicated and there are more uncertainties in terms of policies and medical practices would fight it.