>> while we wait, here's a portion of a recent program from our video library with bioethicist travis rieder and his own experience with opioids. >> how in the world did we get here, how did we get so messed up and it turns out i'm a researcher. that's what i've done for the last four years. i used to work on a bunch of other stuff, i don't do that anymore . i think about opioids, pain and the american healthcare system. we are not the only ones, a bunch of people are messed up, but we're number one in this instance . so there's a lesson in the book, i can't give you the fullversion of now but history teaches us a lot about this .one of the reasons we're so messed up his there's a pendulum when it comes to opioid attitude and it swingsback and forth . it started for longer than a lot of us think. it started 450 years starting with the invention of morphine and heroin and hypodermic needle and we swing back and forth between radical and grace in prohibition so how are we in this radically bad place how is pain medicine so broken ? because we're misusing, for 10, 15 years depending on your rea

experiences that we all might undergo some day so with that in mind please join me in welcoming travis rieder to politics and prose. [applause] it's a little bit surreal i spent several years in the area having done my graduate work at georgetown to be speaking at politics and prose which is such an institution it's a great while so i appreciate you being here with me in th these urgent pressing issues and i think very often it's in an entirely scholarly way and that is how i started my work in bioethics and it turns out that if you are interested in ethics and policies regarding america's health-care system, a really good way although not a recommended way of finding out huge gaps you will find it very quickly that it's quite broken i'm going to do tonight is tell you some stories of people i love and know and some stories are those of our culture and medicine. in 2015, i was in a celebratory mood and i got my first permanent faculty position of george hopkins and my partner had gotten a permanent position as a researcher scientist and we were feeling quite ecstatic and we had a one and a ha