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    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?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 8, 2015 • 1 min read

    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?

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    New Housing Rules, the Heroin Epidemic and L.A.’s Mysterious House on a Hill
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Colleen Barry

      Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

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      Sam Quinones

      journalist and author of “The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth”

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    New Housing Rules, the Heroin Epidemic and L.A.’s Mysterious House on a Hill
    1. 0:00New Housing Rules Nationwide
    2. 7:09Housing Opportunity in L.A.
    3. 16:47L.A.’s Mysterious House on a Hill
    4. 27:17Heroin Epidemic and the Impact of Medical MarijuanaYou’re reading this
    5. 41:23Comic-Con Preview
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