Hour 2 - Fentanyl and Homelessness

The Annie Frey Show Podcast

Dr. Robert Marbut, fentanyl expert and former White House homelessness czar, discusses the fentanyl crisis and its impact on homelessness. He explains how untreated mental illness and self-medicating drug use drive homelessness and criticizes the 2012 federal policy changes that removed requirements for clean and sober shelters. Marbut shares alarming statistics, like fentanyl causing more deaths in the last five years than all U.S. service members in the last century. He advocates for treatment-focused approaches over enabling drug use and promotes his new documentary, Fentanyl Death Incorporated, to raise awareness.