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"We were the first to get into the opioid crisis, and we were the first to realize it was a crisis," said Alicia Sasser Modestino about the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

This recent Freakonomics Radio episode features Prof. Alicia Sasser Modestino recounting the timeline of the waves of opioid addiction in the U.S., and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Listen to the rest of this episode here.

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