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Rethinking How America Treats Opioid Addiction

People call methadone a life sentence, a ball and chain. Cato’s Jeffrey Singer talks with Helen Redmond, author of Liquid Handcuffs, about how a Nixon-era crime control program became America’s dominant addiction treatment model, and why it needs to be abolished.

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Helen Redmond
Helen Redmond, MSW, LCSW

Senior Editor, Filter, Multimedia Journalist and Filmmaker, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work at New York University Silver School of Social Work