{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Radio Catskill - The Kingfisher Project","title":"Former U.S. Drug Czar Richard J. Baum on America’s Opioid Crisis and Lessons from the Drug War","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4159,"description":"Richard J. Baum spent 35 years working on America’s drug policy, including 28 years with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy across six presidential administrations. He also served as acting director of the ONDCP — the nation’s Drug Czar — and as executive director of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.\nNow an adjunct professor of public policy at Georgetown University, Baum joins us to discuss his new book, Inside America’s Opioid Crisis: 12 Hard Lessons from Today’s Drug War, and what decades of experience inside the federal government taught him about America’s response to opioids and drug policy.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/pF3gYjZdznQwNN8YU29FAmOpB_FwxohYbX_1mul3bp0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMzIx/NDVhZmM3MTFhYTM4/MmM4NzEyYzZjZTg0/MDQ3MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}