The Warfare On Medication
New Podcast Exposes America’s Disastrous Strategy to Medication
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Award-winning multimedia platform Lava for Good as we speak unveils the primary two episodes of The War on Drugs podcast, a high-profile particular sequence that includes the unlikely pairing of award-winning comic Clayton English and Greg Glod, People for Prosperity Senior Prison Justice Fellow and Advisor to Stand Collectively on Prison Justice and Drug Reform.
The podcast examines the true value of 5 a long time of the failed “Warfare on Medication,” which culminated in a staggering 101,000 drug overdose deaths prior to now 12 months alone. Particular friends, together with numerous subject material consultants, peel again the floor of this difficult interval of U.S. historical past, exhibiting how the Warfare on Medication has fueled over incarceration, exacerbated habit, and hampered financial progress.
“The Warfare on Medication has made the US and the remainder of the world much less secure, exacerbated habit, destroyed numerous households and communities, and disadvantaged thousands and thousands of life-saving treatment and therapies,” stated Glod. “A system that criminalizes poverty and habit does nothing to additional public security, which needs to be the primary aim of our justice system. This sequence helps expose how the Warfare on Medication has backfired and negatively impacts each certainly one of us in our every day lives.”
Humorist, actor, and author English first got here to nationwide consideration because the winner of NBC’s 2015 Final Comedian Standing competitors. He made his late-night standup debut on Late Night time with Seth Meyers and has appeared on well-liked reveals together with Hawkeye on Disney+, LOVE on Netflix, AP Bio, Brooklyn 99, Unprotected Units on EPIX, Comedy Knockout, Netflix is a Joke, Tyler Perry’s Home of Payne, and Wild ‘N Out, and has headlined golf equipment, schools, and festivals all through the nation.
“The Warfare on Medication has performed an element in my comedy act for years, however for thousands and thousands of People every year, it’s no joke,” stated English. “I’m glad to come back along with Greg and Lava for Good to shine a highlight on how our communities have crumbled beneath the load of this so-called ‘warfare’ and focus on how we are able to result in change.”
Over the course of the 10-episode sequence, the hosts will discover the politicization of public well being coverage, racial and class-based disparities embedded in prison regulation, and the way decriminalization and different options might carry the fruitless ‘warfare’ to an finish.
“The Warfare on Medication was an enormous driver within the failed social coverage catastrophe of mass incarceration,” stated Jason Flom, founder and CEO of Lava for Good. “It has value taxpayers trillions of {dollars}, destabilized international governments, and destroyed numerous younger lives whereas offering no profit in any way to the general public or private security of People. The Warfare on Medication would extra aptly be referred to as the Warfare on Individuals and it wants to finish. Now.”
To hearken to The Warfare on Medication and the present Lava for Good lineup, go to www.lavaforgood.com or discover them on all well-liked podcast platforms.
About Lava for Good
Lava for Good creates standout authentic content material, podcasts, and experiences, amplifying the voices of latest social justice champions and galvanizing motion in direction of a extra knowledgeable, empathic, and simply society.
Based and led by famend music govt, kids’s ebook writer, and philanthropist Jason Flom together with Lava Media COO Jeff Kempler, Lava for Good’s #1-charting lineup of podcasts, produced in affiliation with Sign Co. No1, has been downloaded over 40 million occasions and is credited with influencing exonerations, clemencies, pardons, laws and reforms nationwide. The lineup, hosted by main consultants, attorneys, activists, previously incarcerated individuals, and journalists on the frontlines of human rights and justice actions, presently consists of Bone Valley, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng, Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, False Confessions, Junk Science, and extra, and is obtainable on all well-liked podcast platforms.
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