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News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills

Added 2024-08-07 15:42:47 +0000 UTC

On this News Brief, we're joined again by public health journalist Zach Siegel to discuss his new report, Fentanyl Exposure: Myths, Misconceptions, and the Media, and how ongoing police propaganda harms real and necessary responses to the opioid crisis in the United States.

Guest

Zach Siegel (@zachwritesstuff) is a journalist, researcher, and writer living in Chicago. His writing on public health, mental health, addiction, drug policy and criminal justice has been featured in news outlets and magazines such as The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Slate, WIRED, The Nation, Scientific American, The New Republic, Politico Magazine, New York Magazine, Vulture, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other places. He writes a newsletter on Substack, which you should absolutely subscribe to.

Show Notes

Fentanyl Exposure: Myths, Misconceptions, and the Media

Zach Siegel | May 29, 2024 | The Center for Just Journalism

How the Media Falls for the Right’s Fentanyl Lies

James North | February 7, 2024 | The New Republic

Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts say the risk is 'extremely low'

Brian Mann | May 16, 2023 | NPR All Things Considered

Fentanyl myth: Police cry overdose, facts prove otherwise

Ian T. Shearn | May 9, 2023 | NJ Spotlight News

Can fentanyl be absorbed through your skin?

Liam Connolly | October 18, 2022 | UC Davis Health

What’s Really Going on in Those Police Fentanyl Exposure Videos?

Zach Siegel | July 13, 2022 | The New York Times Magazine

Doubling Down on Fentanyl Myths, West Virginia Bill Would Punish “Exposing” Cops

Alexander Lekhtman | January 20, 2022 | Filter

A myth that lingers on: Casual contact with fentanyl causes overdoses

Peter Andrey Smith | August 13, 2021 | The Washington Post

Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social media

Leo Beletsky, et al. | September 2020 | The International Journal on Drug Policy

“Patently False” Fentanyl Myth Peddled by Vermont Police Chief

Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard | March 25, 2019 | Filter

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Transcript

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