Outside Counsel with Jeffrey B. Simon

by Jeffrey B. Simon

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. In season one, Jeffrey exposes the truth about how Big Pharma deceived the public about the dangers of prescription opioids, which led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deat ...   ...  Read more
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Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • 14. Season Finale: Tragedy to Triumph

    14. Season Finale: Tragedy to Triumph

    S01 E14
    29:15

    In conversation with Major Patricia Cole, a Lee County, Kentucky, EMT who has dedicated her career to opioid harm reduction following the tragic loss of her son to an accidental opioid overdose.

  • 13. Pragmatic Approaches to Harm Reduction

    13. Pragmatic Approaches to Harm Reduction

    S01 E13
    34:56

    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.

  • 12. Dispatches from the Frontlines feat. Chris McGreal [part 2]

    12. Dispatches from the Frontlines feat. Chris McGreal [part 2]

    S01 E12
    23:32

    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.

  • 11. Dispatches From the Frontlines feat. Chris McGreal [part 1]

    11. Dispatches From the Frontlines feat. Chris McGreal [part 1]

    S01 E11
    30:14

    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.

  • 10. A Mother's Love & Loss

    10. A Mother's Love & Loss

    S01 E10
    24:15

    In conversation with Christy Couvillier: an active harm reduction advocate and community leader in the fight against the opioid epidemic. She's also a mother who lost her son just to an accidental overdose just one month prior to this interview.