solving the fentanyl crisis will take time and a wide range of efforts. doctors still prescribe far too many opioids responding to powerful commercial incentives. a 2019 study shows that american and canadian postoperative patients were seven times more likely to be prescribed opioids than patients in sweden. drug treatment and rehabilitation programs are far too small and underfunded. medications that help with drawl symptoms have proven extremely effective but still only one in four people who need them in the u.s. can obtain them. in the meantime, though, it is much easier to bellow about going to war with mexico. let s hope that it is just campaign craziness. if we actually try to make these threats a reality, we will be asking for decades of turmoil. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link
the united states of seeking to destroy russia s political value which is directly lead to degradation and degeneration because they are contrary to human nature. for putin, modern iedzing russia will create a more active civil society we more demands for better healthcare and a less kleptocratic state and he advocates traditional, and strict gender conformity, of course. what does this all add up to? i am not sure, but it is fair to say that russia s biggest problem is not that it is losing the ukraine war, but rather that it is losing the 21st century. go to cnn.com/fareed for a lenk to my washington post column this week and let s get started.
losing the 21st century. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. and let s get started. the events of the last nine days in russia have left many questions. first and foremost, how firm is vez vladimir putin s grip on power today? to answer that and much more, i have asked david remnick to join me here in new york and nina khrushcheva is here from moscow. david is from the new yorker, beginning in 1988 he spent four years in moscow reporting for the washington post, his first book on russia received the pulitzer prize, it is called lennon s tomb, the last days of the soviet empire. nina is a professor of international affairs at the new school and the great granddaughter of the soviet leader nikki khrushcheva.
world. something that is palpable when you re there. companies, students, scholars, activists, all want closer ties with america. this people-to-people alliance will inevitably strengthen the government-to-government relations between the two countries. but more important, i believe that in an india more deeply connected to america will be a country that will naturally seek to perfect its democracy at home. and that will also give it moral authority in a fracturing world that could use more of it. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. thank you for joining us. and see you next week. oh yeah, that is them. (that is howard) yeah, that s on howard s campus.
with israel. most countries would like to pursue a policy that allows them to freelance. choosing friends in the west and east as suits their interests. if india continues down the path it is on now, saudi arabia for sure will likely be able to manage this balancing act. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. and let s get started. last week, the world got its first official indication that the much discussed much anticipated ukraine counter offensive had actually begun. when president zelenskyy at a press conference alongside canadian p.m. trudeau talked about actions that were taking place. so how big are the stakes here and what could we expect from