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S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
S2 Ep 7: Helping family members of people with addiction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: True Hope Community Church.
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:42
S2 Ep 6: Treating addiction from the ER
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Justina Bauthues (center) poses for a photo with her parents, Lisa and Tom Hilton.
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:04
S2 Ep 5: Treating the wounds of trauma
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Musician and artist, Becka Baker, at band practice in Tacoma, Washington.
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 32:36
S2 Ep4: Some Patients Find Relief in Medical Marijuana
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Robin Guerrero overdosed on black-market fentanyl, but now has found tremendous relief from pain and anxiety by using medical marijuana.
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 24:49
S2 Ep 2: Treating acute pain to prevent opioid dependence
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Megan and Scarlett coming home from the hospital, Credit: The Swarners
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 19:04
A Rabbi and a Bishop are Asked to Consider their Beliefs
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
We consider the deeply-held beliefs of Rabbi Daniel Greyber of Beth El Synagogue and Bishop Ronald Godbee of The River Church.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
A Former Pharmaceutical Sales Rep Expresses Her Belief that Vaccines are Harmful
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
Tahli Kentoff, a former pharmaceutical sales rep and now certified master herbalist, expresses her belief that all pharmaceuticals, including vacci...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Ed Tiryakian of Dying Right NC breaks down one's right to choose how one dies
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
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Ed Tiryakian of Dying Right NC explores one's right to choose how one dies while Rev Robert Fruehwirth from St. Matthews considers his Christian fa...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You - Hour Special
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
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We investigate the dangers of vaping, while listening to the voices of high school administrators, health professionals and students. One thing is ...

Bought by KOSU, WHYY, Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:05:51
  • Purchases: 12
BONUS: How Shannon got off drugs
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Shannon McCarty on April 26, 2018 before all her teeth were pulled., Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
For Shannon McCarty, two things were crucial in her recovery: connections and timing. It started with timing – a key encounter just when she wanted...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:30
Ep 3: Treating the opioid epidemic like a natural disaster
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Sheriff Ty Trenary, Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Ep 2: Reversing opioid overdoses with Narcan
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
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A life lost, a life saved. The main character of this episode isn’t a person. It’s a nasal spray. Naloxone (aka Narcan) saves lives from opioid ove...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 23:51
  • Purchases: 1
Creeping Towards Viruses
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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Computer viruses today pose a very real threat. However, it turns out that their origins are actually very non-threatening. Today, we are going to ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:11
Ep 1: Fighting the opioid epidemic with Suboxone and telemedicine
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: A patient video conferencing with a medical provider at Ideal Option the clinic in Everett, WA., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
S2 Ep 1: Help young people grow up healthy
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Friday Lunch Club having ice cream. , Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:58
Episode 122: Professor Quaalude
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:12
Episode 5: Our Future With Fire
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material
On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 4: The Wildland-Urban Interface
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Jim Hautman and Calli-Jane showing an open forest burn scar
On the fourth episode of California Burning we focus on the issues surrounding fires where the urban and wild spaces meet. We hear from people who ...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, KSKA, WMRA, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 3: One Foot In The Black
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Shasta-Trinity Forest Rangers Randy Paris, Dan Ostermann, Kevin Osbourne and Carol Underhill
On the third episode of California Burning, we talk to many people who are or have been working directly with fire - both deep in the forests, and ...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KSKA, KVCR, WMRA, KCBX and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
A Plea for Earlids
From: Tanya Rodrigue
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This sound-rich audio documentary probes the nature of a mysterious and debilitating ear disorder, and simulates what it feels and sounds like to l...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 23:33
Cold Comfort | Extra 03 | What Have You Done for Me Lately?
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Join us on a journey into a permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Pond #42: Heart in Space – German Scientists and NASA
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Since 2016, the German scientists Sonja Schrepfer and her husband Tobias Deuse have led the Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology Lab at the Unive...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 14:56
  • Purchases: 1
Series Launching on September 30th - California Burning 30s Promo
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
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Generic 30 second promo for the 5 part series - California Burning

Bought by KCBX, KALW, KUSU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 6
Making Sense: Deaf Children and the Choices Their Parents Face
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 1

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