Ripple Effect of West Virginia Teacher Strike

Ripple Effect of West Virginia Teacher Strike

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 766 , Segment 2

Episode: Naloxone and Opioids, West Virginia Teacher Strike, History of Military Parades

  • Mar 12, 2018 11:00 pm
  • 13:06 mins

Guest: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Education After teachers in West Virginia went on strike for nine consecutive days, they succeeded in getting a five percent pay increase signed into law last week. Now teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona and Kentucky appear eager to catch the same wave. Union leaders in Oklahoma have even set a date to walk out in early April, if a pay increase isn’t approved by then.

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Is Naloxone Making the Opioid Epidemic Worse?

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Guest: Jennifer Doleac, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Founding Director, Justice Tech Lab Opioids now account for two-thirds of all drug overdose deaths in the United States. One tool states are using to prevent those deaths is naloxone. It’s a medication that can reverse the effects of an overdose – literally save that person’s life - if administered quickly.  So EMTs now carry it with them in ambulances. But all states now have laws making naloxone accessible to everyday people – some would like to see it in everyone’s medicine cabinet, given how common opioid overdose has become.  But what if knowing you’ve got a safety net sitting in your medicine cabinet actually makes someone more likely to overdose on opioids?

Guest: Jennifer Doleac, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Founding Director, Justice Tech Lab Opioids now account for two-thirds of all drug overdose deaths in the United States. One tool states are using to prevent those deaths is naloxone. It’s a medication that can reverse the effects of an overdose – literally save that person’s life - if administered quickly.  So EMTs now carry it with them in ambulances. But all states now have laws making naloxone accessible to everyday people – some would like to see it in everyone’s medicine cabinet, given how common opioid overdose has become.  But what if knowing you’ve got a safety net sitting in your medicine cabinet actually makes someone more likely to overdose on opioids?