“The truth is that you just don’t survive on the street anymore. You could survive when heroin or cocaine was the drug, even when crack was the drug, but that is no longer the case. The problem now is that the drugs that are out there now are so potent and prevalent that they are almost anchoring people to the street just as they kill them.” – Sam Quinones
New York Times bestselling author, investigative journalist and NBCC Winner, Sam Quinones, joins me to discuss his groundbreaking book, THE LEAST OF US: TRUE TALES OF AMERICA AND HOPE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL AND METH.
On December 20, 2022, The U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration announced the seizure of over 50.6 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder this calendar year. The DEA laboratory estimates that these seizures represent more than 379 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl.
