Have you heard about the play, “American Junkie?” Now in performance at Seattle’s Repertory Theatre, it is a remarkable creation of playwright Tom Hansen. This is a frank, intelligent radio discussion on KEXP by Hansen, the very articulate UW doc Caleb J. Banta-Green, and DJ Marco Collins about opioid abuse, medication assisted treatment, and recovery. (Some graphic description of shooting heroin right out of the gate.) Listen to it to the end; it is time well spent.
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