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While listening to this episode, I was intrigued so I asked my boyfriend (I was driving, so he was on phone duty) to look it up. We spend a decent amount on nice beer and sometimes make semi-fancy cocktails at home, so it seemed like a splurge right up our alley. We ordered this Moscow Mule mixer, which cost $17 + $5 shipping, plus the cost of booze and a little tonic to top it off. The shipping information indicated it was sent to the wrong state entirely, but it did end up coming on the day it was supposed to so whatever. It says 10 servings; maybe we overserve ourselves at home because we got 4 drinks out of it (2 copper mugs full each). It's delicious, I'll give them that, but for the price it came out to we could have just gone to a bar.

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I'm sorry for your loss. An excerpt from a book on abandonment that I've found helpful in the past:

> Society, unfortunately, does not assign bereavement roles when someone is abandoned. There is no funeral, there are no letters of sympathy. Rather, you are seen as someone who has been dumped.
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> Abandonment survivors are left to wonder if perhaps they caused their own problems. Maybe it was their fault the relationship ended, perhaps they shouldn't feel such pain, perhaps it's a sign of emotional weakness. These self-recriminations add another layer of shame, forcing us farther into emotional exile.

But you've asked specifically about podcasts.

Podcasts can be great solace.

I've found "The Mental Illness Happy Hour" to be rewarding, in the past.

But sometimes, misery doesn't love company. I've enjoyed "CRIMINAL". They're about a half-hour each, generally. Reminiscent of "This American Life", which is one of my favorite podcasts (and which seems to spawn all other podcasts). It's a crime podcast but it isn't as intense as many of the true crime podcasts you'll find.

When I'm going through a breakup, I just like to get lost in other stories that don't remind me of the loss.

Econtalk voted the Dreamland episode #1 of 2017 (book). Dreamland is about a tight-knit village in Mexico which became rural America's under-the-radar door-to-door supplier of heroin for those who could no longer afford Oxycontin. Also strong reporting by The Atlantic on an offhand remark in the New England Journal of Medicine that became the justification for pain as the fifth vital sign. Also New Yorker on the Sackler family behind Oxycontin that paid for immunity via arts and university grants.

I don't understand why this isn't, by far, the dominant issue in all US news. Opioid deaths have over the past decade increased by more than the ~33,000 car deaths annually. You could argue, as Case and Deaton do, that opioids are a symptom of despair, and that alcohol and suicide deaths are also increasing. Many news outlets aired recurring segments listing the name of every American who died in Iraq/Afganastan. And yet, in terms of death toll, this problem is 10s of times worse than the ~4400 Americans killed in Iraq and Afganistan over the past 15 years.

Good on Science vs. for giving it the time. Virtual media malpractice the degree to which other sources neglect the issue.