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The least of us : true tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth / Sam Quinones ; [with a new afterword by the author].

by Quinones, Sam, 1958- author.

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New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Epidemics -- United States.

Drugs -- United States.

Opioid abuse -- United States.

Drug abuse -- United States.

Social problems -- United States.

Methamphetamine abuse -- United States.

9781639730476 (paperback)

1639730478 (paperback)

[iii], 414 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Introduction -- Part I -- Angie and Starla I: alone -- The project I: Chicago -- Neuroscience I: "a critical point" -- Meth I: "streets of backersfield" -- Janssen -- Sacklers I: "overworked and unprepared doctors" -- Henderson -- The project II: Toluca, Mexico -- Clarksburg I: Doc O -- Part II -- Angie and Starla II: "life our family survived and had a baby" -- Fentanyl I: magic bullet -- Neuroscience II: "these rats weren't on heroin, They were on sugar" -- Fentanyl II: Tommy Rauh -- Fentanyl III: "is this really happening?" -- Fentanyl IV: Gordon Jin -- Sacklers II: "a fresh start" -- Muncie I -- Muncie II -- Muncie III -- Part III -- Angie and Starla III: "who do you belong to?" -- Neuroscience III: "built to be social" -- Fentanyl V: "the intention is very deliberate" -- Sacklers III: "a dangerous concentration of risk" -- Meth II:p2p -- Meth III: ephedrine's last gasp -- Hardin County I -- Hardin County II -- Hardin County III -- Part IV -- Angie and Starla IV: "we'll figure out a way" -- Neuroscience IV: "modern skulls house a stone-age mind" -- Eric and Mundo I: "all of a sudden you're stuck" -- Meth IV:"just escapes all limits" -- Kenton County I -- Meth V: "there's no way into that person" -- Kenton County II -- Sacklers IV: "the incentives were tilted" -- Kenton County III -- Part V -- Angie and Starla V: "the one to make it out" -- Neuroscience V: "craveable, mind-blowing flavor" -- Meth VI: pimps & tents -- Meth VII: colt -- Meth VIII: Rashad -- Sacklers V: "we feel absolutely terrible" -- Clarksburg II: "a meth apocalypse" -- Clarksburg III: saving the despised -- Eric and Mundo II: leave the drug, gain the world -- The least of us -- Angie and Starla VI -- Epilogue: return to dreamland -- Afterword.

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.

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