Drugs, Prohibition, and the Suburban Overdose Crisis
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Dr. Mark Thornton and Garrett Petersen from Economics Detective Radio discuss drugs in the United States.
Topics include: how drug prohibition causes homelessness, the rising heroin epidemic in America, the effects of American foreign policy on opiate supply, and the political lies behind drug prohibition.
See Dr. Thornton’s recent article on the Heroin Epidemic here, and visit The Economics Detective website here.