Ep. 276 - Strike Force Stops Flow of Illicit Opioids
In October 2018, the Justice Department's Criminal Division created the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO), Strike Force. This...
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Ep. 284 - Sentencing The Mastermind
Last February, I interviewed Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind. The book tells the story of how lone programmer Paul La Roux, built an...
Ep. 283 - Obscure Treatment Could be The Final Fix for Addiction
For the last few months, I’ve been covering COVID-19’s impact on the opioid crisis. With overdoses up 42% in May alone, it’s projected 75,00...
Ep. 282 - The Impact of COVID-19 on the Opioid Crisis
Over the last 90 plus days, much has changed in our world. COVID19 has forced many of us to endure unfamiliar hardships and inconveniences....
Ep. 205 Rerelease - American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis and How to End It.
In 2018, bestselling author Ryan Hampton spoke with me about his struggles with heroin addiction while working as a White House aide and how...
Ep. 220 Rerelease - Dopesick: The Drug Company that Addicted America
Late in 2018, Beth Macy, best selling author of "Dopesick", shared the story of how Virginia became the canary in the coal mine for the opio...
Ep. 281 - A Safer Supply Saves Lives
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is considered the gold standard for treating opioid use disorder. But it doesn’t work for everyone, and...
Ep. 280 - When Keeping Secrets Costs Lives
On May 14th Greg received an email from Elaine, a Montgomery County Maryland Resident. She shared the story of her brother Alan who had stru...
Ep. 279 - Home Test Kits: DFCA's Innovative Response to a Pandemic
In today’s episode of the Cover2, PPT podcast, we continue revisiting some of the People, Places, and Things we’ve profiled in earlier episo...
Ep. 278 - Adapting Peer Recovery for a Pandemic
Three years ago, we profiled AnchorEd, an innovative initiative, developed in Rhode Island. This program enables peer recovery coaches to me...
Ep. 277 - Rapid Changes to Opioid Treatment Driven by COVID-19
Last week, a STAT News article titled “Covid-19 will worsen the opioid overdose crisis if we don’t prepare now,” stated that, “Missing from...
Ep. 275 - Drug Czar Unpacks Our National Opioid Epidemic Strategy
In its latest Strategy Report, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) shared its strategy for building a stronger, healthier, dr...
Ep. 274 - Treatment Breakthrough: The ER Addiction Stabilization Unit
In June 2017, Dr. Belma Andric, Chief Medical Officer of the Health District of Palm Beach County, Florida, joined Greg on the Cover2 podcas...
Ep. 273 - The Mastermind Behind the World’s Largest Online Drug Cartel
Since 1995, when the FDA approved OxyContin, igniting an opioid crisis, many bad actors have emerged willing to do almost anything to make a...
Ep. 272 - MOMS Plus: New Program to Lower NAS Rates
Between 2004 and 2011, opioid abuse and dependence among delivering mothers in Ohio grew by 491%. As a consequence, cases of neonatal abstin...
Ep. 271 - In Pain: When No One Knows How to Taper Pain Pills
In 1996, pain became the 5th vital sign in medicine, prompting doctors to rely on opioids for pain treatment. As a result, opioid prescripti...
Ep. 270 - Insys Therapeutic Execs Sentenced: Will Doctors Be Next?
In February of 2019, we interviewed Palm Beach Post reporters Pat Beall and John Pacenti, about the trial of former executives from opioid m...
Ep 269 - New MLB Drug Testing Policy Could Be a Game Changer
Last July, Major League Baseball fans were shocked when Tyler Skaggs, a rising star pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels, was found dead in hi...
Ep 268 - Rudy Giuliani & The Lost Opportunity to Make Them Pay
In 2006, Purdue Pharma was under fire for falsely advertising the addictiveness of its opioid, OxyContin. Many families believed that handcu...
Our Favorite Episode from 2019: FDA Missteps that Helped Fuel Our Nation’s Health Crisis
In 2019 we released 45 new podcasts covering books from best-selling authors such as Dopesick from Beth Macy and American Overdose from Chri...