Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?

Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.


Guests:

Eric Ezzi, Certified Recovery Specialist, Penn Medicine

Ashish Thakrar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Leslie Suen, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Ryan Levi, Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs 


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