Abby and Jon go behind the headlines to talk about the hot topics of the month.

Personal stories of addiction and recovery touch us the most and have the greatest potential to heal and educate. Milan S. joins us to share her recovery journey in the 17th installment of our series "Recovery Stories".

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to talk about the hot topics of the month.

Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., addiction psychiatrist, bioethics scholar, and author joins us to talk about his new book The Urge: Our History of Addiction, an intellectual and cultural history of addiction, interwoven with his own experiences as an addiction psychiatrist at Columbia and as someone in recovery himself.

Personal stories of addiction and recovery touch us the most and have the greatest potential to heal and educate. Shade joins us to share their recovery journey in the 16th installment of our series "Recovery Stories."

Sam Quinones, New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, joins us to talk about his follow-up book The Least of Us, a searing expose of the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to discuss the hot topics of the month.

The unfettered prescribing of pain medications meets the massive influx of black tar heroin in this true, riveting tale of capitalism run amok. Author and journalist Sam Quinones explains how this unintentional collision led to the catastrophic opiate crisis in this country in his book "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic"

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to discuss the hot topics of the month.

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to discuss the hot topics of the month.