S1: UNPACKING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC The Outside Counsel podcast series offers unprecedented insight into the ways in which the wool continues to get pulled over our eyes by major companies & lawmakers, hosted by renowned trial lawyer, Jeffrey B. Simon.
After a landmark ruling advancing the US asbestos ban, Jeffrey sits down with Linda Reinstein, who co-founded the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) after losing her husband Alan to mesothelioma in 2006. Linda's tireless grassroots efforts and high-level public health advocacy work have made her a pivotal figure in the fight to ban asbestos and aid those impacted by its diseases.
Jeffrey sits down with Brian, a former multi-national tech exec who nearly lost his life to the disease of addiction. By illustrating the pathways from OxyContin to illicit heroin, and why the pugilistic “War on Drugs” policy approach to harm reduction has failed.
In the second installment of this exclusive interview, author and journalist Chris McGreal dives deep into the importance of destigmatizing the disease of opioid addiction, and how, in Chris’ assessment, corporate misconduct was aided and abetted by powerful Congressional allies and federal enforecemnt agencies.
In the first of this two-part interview, Jeffrey sits down with author and award-winning journalist, Chris McGreal, as he pulls the curtain back on his intense experience reporting from the front lines of this epidemic, as well as researching and writing his book: American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts.
