His work includes Bear Brook, which has been downloaded more than 17 million times and received acclaim from The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, The Verge, Vulture, Minnesota Public Radio, and others.ĭeath Resulting drops weekly on Wednesdays beginning December 8, 2021. He has created longform narrative podcast series on topics ranging from unsolved murders to presidential elections to secret lists of misbehaving police officers. Jason Moon is a Senior Reporter/Producer on New Hampshire Public Radio’s Document team. The series is an intriguing shift of focus for Moon, who is well known for his deft handling of what he calls “the twists and turns of a typical crime narrative.” Death Resulting looks closely at the context of overdose deaths - and it challenges listeners to consider whether a hunger for meting out punishment may ultimately create more victims in the country’s deepening addiction and overdose crisis. Moon examines forces that shape such cases, including a cycle of generational trauma and addiction, as well as the racist origins and impacts of these prosecutions. 8, 2021, follows the case of Josh, a young man facing a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison for his friend’s death. Many people prosecuted under these laws are addicted to opioids themselves - and the deterrent value of such convictions is questioned even at the highest levels of the legal community. Some in law enforcement characterize the use of this long-buried legal provision as “sending a message to drug dealers” – but as Reporter/Host Jason Moon and the Document team report, it’s not that simple. They are deploying so-called “death resulting” laws to treat overdose deaths as homicides. Prosecutors are increasingly answering “yes” to that question. Concord, NH - There’s a ripple effect to fatal drug overdoses – families and communities are damaged along with the victim, sometimes irreparably, when a life is cut short by opioids.ĭeath Resulting, the latest season of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Document podcast, takes on this provocative question:
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