Brian Mann
speaker
1,581 appearances
201 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
Brian Mann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 160 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 21.
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Experts say the drop is due to better medications for treating opioid addiction and wider access to health care.
There's also been progress disrupting the smuggling of illicit fentanyl.
Alabama, New York and Virginia saw the biggest drops in drug deaths, but there are still problem areas.
Arizona, New Mexico and North Dakota have actually seen sharp increases in fatal overdoses.
Brian Mann, NPR News.
Every single complex society that's ever existed in the history of the world so far has collapsed.
Do we think we're different?
U.S.
overdose deaths peaked in 2023 with more than 110,000 fatalities in a 12-month period.
They've been plunging ever since.
According to the CDC, roughly 69,900 people died from overdoses in 2025, the lowest number of street drug deaths in a 12-month period since 2019.
Experts say the drop is due to better medications for treating opioid addiction and wider access to health care.
There's also been progress disrupting the smuggling of illicit fentanyl.
Alabama, New York and Virginia saw the biggest drops in drug deaths.
But there are still problem areas.
Arizona, New Mexico and North Dakota have actually seen sharp increases in fatal overdoses.
Brian Mann, NPR News.
Colbert's tongue-in-cheek appearance on the program Only in Monroe went viral on social media.
It included digs like this one at his old bosses.
CBS initially sent copyright warnings to websites that reposted Colbert's appearance.
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