Rethinking domestic law enforcement in the fentanyl crisis
Host Vanda Felbab-Brown talks with RAND researchers Beau Kilmer and Roland Neil about U.S. domestic law enforcement responses to the fentanyl crisis. Kilmer and Neil highlight a decline in drug arrest...
10 Sep 202439min
Harm reduction strategies to tackle the fentanyl crisis
In this episode, host Vanda Felbab-Brown discusses the benefits and limitations of harm reduction approaches with experts Regina LaBelle and David Holtgrave, who discuss a wide scope of harm reduction...
3 Sep 202436min
Breaking barriers to opioid use disorder treatment
Host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Nicole Gastala and Dr. Harold Pollack about the challenges in reducing opioid use disorder in the U.S. They discuss the effectiveness of medication-assisted tre...
27 Aug 202435min
Which drugs are up, which are down?
In the show's second episode, host Vanda Felbab-Brown talks with Dr. Peter Reuter and Dr. Greg Midgette, criminology professors at the University of Maryland, about the current state of the U.S. drug ...
20 Aug 202433min
The radical challenge synthetic opioids pose for drug policy
In the show's first episode, host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Jonathan Caulkins, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about the unique challenges that synthetic drugs, and particularly sy...
20 Aug 202439min
Introducing The Killing Drugs, a new podcast about synthetic opioids around the world
Over 100,000 Americans are dying of drug overdoses annually. On The Killing Drugs: Synthetic Opioids around the World, host Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Insti...
12 Aug 20242min
