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Peak horn new cases, President Trump signaling america may be past the pandemic peak as lindseys is plans to reopen the country are coming on thursday, were going to be announcing. Guidelines. And well be talking about various states. And its very exciting. Despite the bending of the national curse different sponsor on different timelines los angeles has seen record deaths for a second straight day and is planning on banning concerts and sports until 2021, its difficult to imagine us getting together in the thousands anytime soon in new york, a new executive order for situations where people can maintain social distancing you must wear a mask. Or. For the tract of and nearby massachusetts passed more than 1000 deaths on the same day they mark the 7th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing just like were stronger after the marathon in 2013 i will be a strong the city after the coronavirus in 2020 in washington, im karen caifa. The irs released another wave of stimulus checks today a
Hello, ben. Great to be with you. Thank you for all your efforts. What an incredible four years on fentanyl, inc. Lets dive right in. My interest in this is that i come from New Hampshire and i started the Bipartisan Task force on Opioid Epidemic. We got 100 members of congress, half publican, half democrat working together and we have been hit very hard in our state. 471 deaths last year but the mix of those is really changing. Its been to know but, as you write about in a book, its fun to know mixed with cocaine or fentanyl mixed with methamphetamines and i want to start off with the big picture of what got you into this . What gave you the incentive to spend four years of your life in this deep dive and how did you keep going with it . I had a friend who died from that in all in 20104 people were much talking about it before i knew what it was but it wasnt until about four years ago i was a music journalist primarily and i was doing a report and why so many people were dying at rave
Those is really changing. Fentanyl but, as you write abo about, fentanyl mixed with cocaine or methamphetamines. So i want to start off with the big picture. What got you into this . I have a friend died from fentanyl in 2010 before people were talking about it. Before i knew what it was. It wasnt until four years ago, i was a music journalist primarily narrows doing a report on people dying at raves. These electronic music, or those tens of thousands of people partying. The deaths would be blamed on ecstasy. I have never heard of ecstasy being a lethal drug before and i found out that almost all of the ecstasy was adulterated. Mixed with other chemicals . Exactly. There was almost no real troop ecstasy at all. It was all these new chemicals. So i wanted to find out what the drugs were and it turns out that there are hundreds of new drugs that i had never heard of and most people have never heard of, all synthetic, made in a lab and almost all of them in china. So i heard about drugs c