590. Can $55 Billion End the Opioid Epidemic? | Freakonomics Radio

[@nunyabidness117]

The opioid industrial complex assures this problem will never go away, just as California paying career homeless bureaucrats mid 6 figure salaries assures there will always be a homeless problem.

[@slater1802]

You can throw as much as you like at it but no , not a chance, as a recovering addict and been sober for 2 years now so I hope that one day it will be possible but it's the people involved in it and not the money that will change it.

[@charlesovenstone2558]

How do we keep taking human nature out of the equation?

[@CatNichols-bb3cb]

Use human nature as a tool for improvement. Use the families and communities affected by this. NO ONE wants this to continue that isn't making money from it. That's powerful. People just don't know how they can help. When we figure that out, we will gain a lot of ground.