On July 8, AEI’s Brent Orrell hosted the fifth event in the “On the Front Porch” series with the Brookings Institution’s Tony Pipa featuring Stanford University Professor Keith Humphreys and AEI’s Sally Satel, two experts in opioid treatment and the societal effects of drug abuse in rural areas. They discuss the factors that led to the opioid crisis and the challenges in resolving it.
Mentioned in the Episode
Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts by Abby Alpert et. al
Death in Mud Lick Book by Eric Eyre
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton