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The Opioid Crisis (#4)

Episode Summary

News and trends covered this week include: * data on where and who * how opioids work * who's to blame? * managing pain and where tech come in …with @jorgecondebio @vijaypande and host @smc90.

Episode Notes

This is episode #4 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point in tech -- and share our experts' views on these trends as well.

This week we do a short but deep dive on the opioid crisis, given recent data around where and who was behind the manufacturing and distribution of specific opioids:

Our a16z experts in this episode are a16z bio general partners Jorge Conde and Vijay Pande, in conversation with host Sonal Chokshi.