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Podcast: Howie Severino Presents
Episode: [VIDEO] Medical anthropologist Dr. Gideon Lasco: “Our drug policies are actually doing more harm than the drugs themselves.”
Description: Gideon Lasco occupies a unique space as a millennial intellectual, influencing wide audiences with newspaper columns and tweets informed by his deep academic research. His decade-long study of drug policy made him a credible critic of the Duterte drug war, and led him and a colleague to coin a term, medical populism, that became known around the world to describe leaders who use public health crises such as drug addiction and the pandemic to justify punitive, often violent responses. Dr. Lasco has diverse interests and writes well-researched, insightful essays on everyday trends, such as the pandemic plant c...