The Growing Drug Crisis and Its Ties To the Murdaugh Family

Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, was quoted in the NBC News story “Behind Alex Murdaugh’s ‘fall from grace’: Drug addiction fueled by opioid epidemic.” Monnat discussed the growing drug crisis, saying, “What’s really driving the surge in overdoses is this increasingly poisoned drug supply.”