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Podcast: The Health Design Podcast
Episode: Timothy McMahan King
Description: Timothy McMahan King is the author of Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals About Us. After a near-fatal illness led to his doctor's prescribing him opioids for the pain, King ended up where millions of others have: addicted. But his story didn't end in tragedy like so many others. He had a doctor who understood the nature of addiction and a healthy support system that allowed him to step down off of opioids over time and learn to manage his pain without them. His was not a story of dramatic recovery or super-human willpower but a demonstration of the...