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a few of the jurors had shared during jury selection that they have loved someone who has struggled with addiction. one juror specifically lost a family member who had od d. details in this trial are emotional like i said, painfully personal, but also to members of the jury, how might that fit into the way they view the testimony? i think it s going to play a very large role. look, jurors are instructed that you have to follow the law. you have to evaluate fairly what the facts are, but you don t check your common sense and your life experience at the door. you are entitled to use those too. and to the extent that people have experience with addiction, you ll notice the use of the word sober there, which is very interesting. one of abbe lowell s defenses is that he was also an alcoholic. and you know, who s to say whether he was talking about alcohol or whether she was talking about drugs. i mean, maybe she remembers, but
addiction to alcohol or drugs, and i ve got to tell you i don t know if there was more than a handful that didn t say yes. i think almost every single member of the jury all have members of their family or friends that had either od d, suffered from alcoholism, died from drugs or alcohol, and that s a lot of what this case is about. yeah, and that s something that has been part of the hunter biden story line is that people close to the president say, actually, you know, this is not a gotcha. a lot of americans feel real sympathy for the bidens because they have addiction issues in their own family. alex, we do have the talk about the politics of this. as noted republicans have for years now tried to drown biden with accusations against hunter. this no success. most polls show americans simply don t care. and hunter biden is not running for office and we have the split screen with what happened with trump last week. there s more concern just about
number one is, we made sure narcan is available literally everywhere. mm-hmm. i remember going into libraries and talking to librarians about their fear in certain areas of our city where addiction was very high about finding people in bathrooms that had od d. so we made sure we got narcan out everywhere. fentanyl test strips. that s critically important, and particularly because what we re seeing is not only a huge number of african-american males 45 to 64 are the hardest-hit population, but we re now starting to see younger people who had no interest in opioids, but were taking other drugs and finding that they also are now laced with fentanyl. laced with yes. jan, we first met six years ago when the issue was heroin. yes. and this is look, we re talking about an urban community in chicago. we re talking about huntington, west virginia, a more rural community. talk about the transition from what you were fighting with heroin addiction. i remember you were the ones g
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which i respect that. she knew i wanted to get clean, so we didn t talk too much about using, and she wanted to use so i didn t talk too much about getting clean. not surprisingly, o reilly received distressing news about her friend. we heard she o.d. d. so it left me really upset. i haven t cried since i been here. that was the first time i cried. nobody knew anything further than that. they just knew that she o.d. d somewhere the day she got out. then i got the letter from her a couple days later. like it was such a relief to read that it was written after the fact. like she obviously was still alive. it says krystle, what s up chickie? mean, nothing too good at all. wednesday shot dope and died. so i haven t been with the dope too hard. but that fear isn t as strong as it was because truth be told, i don t give a [ bleep ] about anything. it s actually quite disturbing. but oh, well, all bets are off about anything. don t get too comfortable not seeing me because it won t get to