The Next 72 Hours
In most states, a person may be held for up to 72 hours for treatment and evaluation of a suspected mental illness. Sometimes, 72 hours can't tell the whole story.The Next 72 Hours brings you the lived realities of Black people navigating the American mental health system. In each episode, psychiatrists Dr. Dani Hairston and Dr. Nwayieze Ndukwe break down and delve into stories of people seeking (or not seeking) mental health help and the repercussions that come with either decision. Through current events and historical happenings, the hosts and their guests explore provocative questions about medicine, society, racism, and mental health. Every hold has a story. Every story has a history.
The Next 72 Hours
3 - The War on Us (Part 1)
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Episode 3
This episode is the first of two that focuses on the treatment and sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine use and the opioid epidemic. The War on Drugs is a calculated racist political tool. Crack didn’t just appear in Black communities...it came from somewhere.
In part 1, Dani and Nwayieze’s conversations with Jack Brown and Susan Burton, mental health advocates who experienced the war on drugs. They talk about their childhood and upbringing, encounters with drug use, and how access to mental health education and care could have made a difference.