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The least of us : true tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth / Sam Quinones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quinones, Sam, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opioid abuse--United States.
- Opioid abuse.
- Opioids.
- Methamphetamine abuse--United States.
- Methamphetamine abuse.
- Drugs.
- Epidemics.
- United States.
- Drug abuse--United States.
- Drug abuse.
- Epidemics--United States.
- Drugs--United States.
- Opioid Epidemic.
- Opioid-Related Disorders.
- Opium Dependence.
- Analgesics, Opioid.
- Fentanyl.
- Methamphetamine.
- Drug Trafficking.
- Social Problems.
- Mental Disorders.
- Direct-to-Consumer Advertising.
- Mexico.
- Humans.
- Medical Subjects:
- Opioid Epidemic.
- Opioid-Related Disorders.
- Opium Dependence.
- Analgesics, Opioid.
- Fentanyl.
- Methamphetamine.
- Drug Trafficking.
- Social Problems.
- Mental Disorders.
- Direct-to-Consumer Advertising.
- United States.
- Mexico.
- Humans.
- Physical Description:
- 408 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
- 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
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I
- Angie and Starla I: Alone
- The Project I Chicago
- Neuroscience I "A Critical Point"
- Meth I "Streets of Bakersfield"
- Janssen
- Sacklers I "Overworked and Unprepared Doctors"
- Henderson
- The Project II Toluca, Mexico
- Clarksburg I Doc O
- PART II
- Angie and Starla II "Like 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 Kingpins
- Fentanyl VI "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-408).
- ISBN:
- 9781635574357
- 1635574358
- OCLC:
- 1280313927
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