Today we welcome Beau Kilmer, McCauley Chair in Drug Policy Innovation for RAND Corporation. We discuss the problems with fentanyl, losing your license to drink, common trends with drugs, policy issues and more. 

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(01:09) What is RAND? 

(07:04) Research on supervised consumption sites

(16:58) The fentanyl crisis 

(25:51) Finding solutions, what can be done?

(32:34) Alcohol and losing your license to drink

(40:01) Reducing drunk driving, and other consumption 

(50:09) What policies actually work?