Joe Rogan Experience #1379 - Ben Westhoff

Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes about culture, drugs, and poverty. His new book "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic " is available now on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Fentanyl-Inc-Chemists-Creating-Deadliest/dp/0802127436

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Nov 7, 20191h 56mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: November 7, 2019
Duration: 1h 56m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes about culture, drugs, and poverty. His new book "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic " is available now on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Fentanyl-Inc-Chemists-Creating-Deadliest/dp/0802127436

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Ben Westhoff, Joe Rogan Experience #1379 - Ben Westhoff explores inside Fentanyl: Rogue Chemists, Chinese Labs, And A Deadly Crisis Joe Rogan and journalist Ben Westhoff discuss the rise of fentanyl from a hospital anesthetic invented in the 1950s into the most lethal street drug in U.S. history. Westhoff explains how rogue chemists, online scientific literature, and gaps in global regulation—especially in China—created a flood of novel synthetic drugs, including fentanyl analogs and synthetic cannabinoids. They explore how prohibition and the war on drugs have driven increasingly dangerous substances, dark‑web markets, and cartel violence, while treatment and harm‑reduction approaches lag far behind. The conversation also touches on broader drug culture: psychedelics as therapy, testing technologies, supervised injection sites, and how healthier, more meaningful lifestyles can reduce demand for escape drugs.

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