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Created January 29, 2020

Updated November 15, 2021

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  1. The Uncertain Hour

    Reprise: The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis

    1Feb 2nd, 20191h 5m
    In light of all the recent news about opioids, we're sharing this episode from last year, all about how the opioid epidemic started and how regulators allowed Purdue Pharma to label OxyContin as low-risk in the first place.
  2. The Uncertain Hour
    Trailer

    The Uncertain Hour Season 3: Inside America’s Drug War

    1Mar 7th, 20192m 27s
    Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush held up a baggie of crack on live TV, and said it had been seized right in front of the White House. The Uncertain Hour’s third season looks at how the policies launched that day continue to reverber
  3. The Uncertain Hour

    George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack

    2Mar 21st, 201945m 37s
    It was the perfect political prop: drugs seized by government agents right across the street from the White House, just in time for a big presidential address. The reality was more complicated.
  4. The Uncertain Hour

    What happened to Keith?

    1Mar 22nd, 201932m 38s
    One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his classmates, that wasn’t the surprising part.
  5. The Uncertain Hour

    Sentencing

    1Mar 28th, 201948m 12s
    The drug bust and the trial were a “farce,” but the full force of the law still came down on Keith Jackson — and thousands of people like him. That didn’t end the crack epidemic, so what did?
  6. The Uncertain Hour

    Welcome to Wise County

    3Apr 4th, 201935m 55s
    It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the drug.”
  7. The Uncertain Hour

    Supply

    2Apr 11th, 201940m 36s
    It’s not easy being an undercover cop in a county of just 40,000 people. But drugs were making it hard for Bucky Culbertson to run his business, so he made it his business to get rid of drugs.
  8. The Uncertain Hour

    Kicking the habit

    1Apr 18th, 201949m 28s
    Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, but there’s a lot less agreement on what to do instead. And we find out what happened to Joey Ballard.
  9. The Uncertain Hour
    Bonus

    George Bush’s infamous crack speech, 30 years later

    1Sep 5th, 201945m 37s
    On this day, 30 years ago, President George H.W. Bush gave his first address from the Oval Office. Bush held up a baggie of crack he said had been seized just outside the White House. Today, we’re revisiting our episode about that speech, the e
  10. The Uncertain Hour

    A new piece of the opioid crisis origin story, revealed

    1Dec 19th, 201915m 43s
    We just found the answer to a really big question that’s been bugging us for years, about why the opioid crisis has hit some places so hard while other places have been relatively protected. The answer comes in the form of new academic research
  11. Freakonomics Radio

    402. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 1: “We’ve Addicted an Entire Generation”

    1Jan 16th, 202047m 31s
    How pharma greed, government subsidies, and a push to make pain the “fifth vital sign” kicked off a crisis that costs $80 billion a year and has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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  12. Freakonomics Radio

    403. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 2: “It’s Not a Death Sentence”

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    12Jan 23rd, 202046m 23s
    One prescription drug is keeping some addicts from dying. So why isn’t it more widespread? A story of regulation, stigma, and the potentially fatal faith in abstinence.
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