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Corrupt doctors. Greedy pharmacists. Negligent drug wholesalers. There are many players in the biggest healthcare crisis facing our country today, as Ashley Velie, CBS News producer, notes upon accepting a 2016 Peabody Award for "Heart of an Epidemic: West Virginia's #OpioidAddiction."
This carefully constructed radio documentary recounts events that occurred almost 35 years ago yet seem familiar today. Indeed, as presented by producer Trey Kay, the battles over school textbook content and decisions to adopt or not adopt those books serve to foreshadow the culture wars that still ebb and flow across America. In this radio forum that reunited participants in the textbook battle, most continue to defend the positions taken in 1974 and many look with some pride at the rise of conservative movements and positions defended with equal passion today.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-great-textbook-war
