The Least of Us (Unabridged) The Least of Us (Unabridged)

The Least of Us (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.

Sam Quinones traveled from Mexico to main streets across the US to create Dreamland, a groundbreaking portrait of the opioid epidemic that awakened the nation. As the nation struggled to put back the pieces, Quinones was among the first to see the dangers that lay ahead: 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 than ever, creating, Sam argues, swaths of mental illness and a surge in homelessness across the United States.

Quinones hit the road to investigate these new threats, discovering how addiction is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations. “In a time when drug traffickers act like corporations and corporations like traffickers,” he writes, “our best defense, perhaps our only defense, lies in bolstering community.” 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.

Weaving analysis of the drug trade into stories of humble communities, The Least of Us delivers an unexpected and awe-inspiring response to the call that shocked the nation in Sam Quinones' award-winning Dreamland.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
NARRATOR
TJ
Tom Jordan
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
12:50
hr min
RELEASED
2021
November 2
PUBLISHER
Audible Studios
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
677.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Citizen and Voter ,

first part MISSING! BEWARE!

Scam. Part One not on the audiotape. I paid for the whole book, 12 hours, and got HALF! 6 hours. This is so illegal and wrong. I will pursue this with our AG!

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