Sam Fenwick
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1,068 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 2d ago
Sam Fenwick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And why doesn't it reach the person on the floor?
On a side street in the Bronx in New York, a man is lying on the pavement, not asleep, not breathing.
Tom Blazek is an outreach worker at On Point NYC, a harm reduction organisation that sends teams onto the streets of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.
He's been doing this work for nine years.
Naloxone, that's the antidote, the thing this whole episode is built around.
Tom knows the other version too.
So how did America get here?
In the late 1990s, drug companies pushed powerful prescription painkillers, telling doctors they carried little risk of addiction.
Millions of prescriptions later, they did.
When the pills became harder to get, people moved to heroin.
Then, about a decade ago, fentanyl arrived, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger.
From 1999 to 2020, nearly 840,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths.
So why doesn't the drug that reverses an opioid overdose reach everyone in time?
Today we're looking at the chain behind the antidote.
There are four links.
What it costs to make, who pays for it, and then something stranger, companies settling their opioid bills in the antidote itself, and whether, at the end of it all, a kit is actually in the room when it's needed.
First then, what is this stuff and what does it cost to produce?
Dr. Nab Dasgupta is a senior scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He runs lab tests on street drug supply and he helped set up the Remedy Alliance, a non-profit that supplies naloxone at cost to community harm reduction programs, the groups that hand it out for free on the street.
So at just 25 cents for the drug, where does the bulk of the cost come from?
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