Episode 17-35 The Opioid Crisis
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr Nora Volkow, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, talks about the grip of addiction and the opioid crisis, prescription opiates, heroin and fentanyl, synthetically-produced heroin. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft examines misaligned incentives. in healthcare, and Dr. Ciara Kennedy, CEO of Amplyx Pharmacecuticals, tells us about treating life-threatening fungal infections.