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Talking about suicide can be uncomfortable, complicated, and often avoided, but silence can be dangerous. UnSilent: Candid Conversations About Suicide Prevention is a new podcast from the David Farber ASPIRE Center and Jefferson Health that tackles the difficult conversations around suicide prevention, mental health, and treating suicide crises with honesty and compassion. Hosted by Amanda Blue, Dr. Matt Wintersteen, and Dr. Lucas Zullo, the series breaks down stigma, explores warning signs, and highlights evidence-based care alongside powerful stories from survivors and families. Through ...

Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the "Horatio Alger boys" of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines - did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late 20th-century capitalism.

Jobs to Be Done gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a road map for discovering new markets, new products, and new services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.

Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs", the United States government has spent more than a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In a rare multifaceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, The War on Drugs: A History examines how drug-war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy.