welcome back. joining me now are three guests who have been on the front lines of this fentanyl crisis and, frankly, of the drug-overdose crisis for some time. former chicago mayor lori lightfoot. she s been a prosecutor, as well, before that. dr. andrew kolodny, a medical director of the opioid policy research collaborative and president of physicians for responsible opioid prescribing. and jan rader, the former fire chief in huntington, west virginia, and director of the huntington mayor s council of public health and drug control policy. welcome to all of you. i m going to start with the former elected official here. you ve been on the front lines, a prosecutor. it s touched your own family with your brother. where are we today versus where we were in the 90s? well, look, i think the good news coming out of chicago is that we are really focused on harm reduction and treatment. we have decades of evidence, as you indicated earlier in the show, that the war on drugs is not a succ
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