Monuments of Suffering by Paul Martin
I am the founder of United Against Fentanyl and the host of Exploited, a series about the intersection of addiction and organized crime. Paulosophia is where I write about human suffering, currently the fentanyl crisis.
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500,000 Dead. Why Does It Take a Celebrity? (opens the original)
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Prince. Tom Petty. Mac Miller. Now Hayden Panettiere. And last week, Cindy Crawford’s 27-year-old son, Presley Gerber, died in what police are investigating as a suspected overdose.Their deaths are tragic. Because unlike grief that follows an expected fatality, traumatic grief is different. It follows an event such as a death that is sudden, unexpected, or violent. The shock leaves survivors processing both the event itself and the trauma of how it happened, intensifying feelings of disbelief, f
Exploited™ Just Dropped (opens the original)
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Last night at a summit on drugs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., I showed a preview of something I have been working on quietly for a year. (A portion of that event is here.)<im
Exploited™ - Official Trailer (opens the original)
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Every one of these deaths is a transaction. Somebody got paid.EXPLOITED is a series about the monetization of addiction — who manufactures it, who sells it, who profits from it, and why, after hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, almost no one has been held to account. Fentanyl is where Exploited starts. It is not where it stops.The first episode returns to Española, New Mexico — the town where this began for me. It publishes Monday, October 26, 2026.https://exploitedpodcast.com—I spent thre
Exploited: My new podcast about addiction and crime (opens the original)
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Coming September 26 (opens the original)
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Exploited is a series about the intersection of addiction and organized crime — about those who can't simply quit, and those who don't want them to. It explores the monetization of addiction, and the reality that every one of these deaths is a transaction. Somebody got paid.The trailer premieres September 26 in Washington, D.C. The first episode goes back to Española, New Mexico.Subscribe now and you'll have it the day it drops.Exploited is produced by Paulosophia LLC, independently of United Ag
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