The least of us : true tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth /
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 t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
[2021].
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 408 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781635574357 1635574358 |