Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Heroin Epidemic and the Impact of Medical Marijuana
The country is in the midst of an epidemic. Not measles or the flu, but heroin addiction. The rate of heroin use among women doubled over a decade, according to a new study published this week. It has also more than doubled among whites, and it grew 60% among middle-class households. What’s next in the heroin epidemic?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe country is in the midst of an epidemic. Not measles or the flu, but heroin addiction. The rate of heroin use among women doubled over a decade, according to a new study published this week. It has also more than doubled among whites, and it grew 60% among middle-class households. What’s next in the heroin epidemic?
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Colleen Barry
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Sam Quinones
journalist and author of “The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth”