Lauren Aguirre on Opioids and Memories

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lauren Aguirre, the author of "The Memory Thief and the Secrets Behind How We Remember: A Medical Mystery", to discuss the surprising connection between pain relieving drugs and memory.

Lauren Aguirre is an award-winning science journalist who has produced documentaries, podcasts, short-form video series, interactive games, and blogs for the PBS series NOVA, where she worked after graduating from MIT. Aguirre’s reporting on memory has appeared in The Atlantic, Undark Magazine, and the Boston Globe’s STAT.

The research and writing of this book was supported in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.