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

by Quinones, Sam, 1958-

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

362.2930973 Q7L

Drugs -- United States.

Synthetic drugs.

Drug abuse -- United States.

9781635574357 (hc.)

Alternate title:

True tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth

408 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-408).

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.

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