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Podcast: High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
Episode: Episode #45 High Truths with Sam Quinones on The Least of Us
Description: The Least of Us
About Sam Quinones
Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of four books of narrative nonfiction. His latest book is The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.
In The Least of Us (published October 2021), Quinones chronicles the emergence of a drug-trafficking world producing massive supplies of dope cheaper and deadlier than ever, marketing to the population of addicts created by the nation’s opioid epidemic, as the backdrop to tales of Americans’ quiet...