Drug overdoses continue to kill Americans: nearly 108,000 in 2022. That year, more than 2,600 Arizonans died of drug overdoses. Opioids are, of course, still a big part of that, as the country continues to try to deal with that epidemic.
Dr. Melody Glenn is trying to bring those numbers down. She’s an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician in Tucson and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
She’s also the author of a new book called "Mother of Methadone," which follows her own story of finding the field of harm reduction, as well as that of the physician who co-developed methadone treatment decades ago.
Glenn spoke with The Show more about her journey into the kind of medicine that she practices — because it was not the plan all along.
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