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The least of us : true tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth Cover Image

The least of us : true tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth / Sam Quinones.

ISBN: 9781635574357
ISBN: 1635574358
Physical Description: 408 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Copyright: &copy;2021

Quinones, Sam, 1958- (author.).

Summary:

Quinones was among the first to see the dangers of synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths--at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent. He investigated these new threats, discovering how addiction is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations. Amid a landscape of despair, Quinones found hope in those embracing the forgotten and ignored, illuminating the striking truth that we are only as strong as our most vulnerable.-- Adapted from jacket.