tonight, has channeled a background in philosophy into his current role on the faculty at the john hopkins berman institute for bioethics where he serves as the director for the program and also assistant director for education initiatives. as a person leading the program in the field associated with medicine and public health, he was obviously be one of the best people to talk to in order to understand what people should know about the current ways of opioid dependencies sweeping across the vast swaths of the american landscape. as you will see in his book, he comes to the topic from his own struggles against that very dependency. after crushing his foot in a motorcycle accident about four years ago now, an injury that almost necessitate amputation, he underwent numerous surgeries to put his body backhe in placea procesprocess an incomprehensibe amounthat an incomprehensibleamn various forms. to manage that, he creates relief in the form he wasor prescribed morphine content and all and more. the question then became of course how do you back away from those doses when the time is right and that