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Death Resulting · Dec 15, 2021 · 35 min

2: Launching a War

The origin story of death resulting laws dates back to the “War on Drugs” era and the shocking death of a 1980s basketball star. But the idea of charging overdose deaths as murders didn’t really take hold until the opioid epidemic. Document is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio. More at nhpr.org/document. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The origin story of death resulting laws dates back to the “War on Drugs” era and the shocking death of a 1980s basketball star. But the idea of charging overdose deaths as murders didn’t really take hold until the opioid epidemic.


Document is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio. More at nhpr.org/document.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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