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Jan 2018
38m 41s

What's Up With The Opioid Crisis? with D...

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
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Dr. Chris Evans talks with Jonathan about how people get addicted to opioids, why addiction is so hard to kick, and what we can do about this national crisis. Dr. Evans is Director of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA and the Hatos Centre for Neuropharmacology.

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