Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the highly-acclaimed, bombshell first book about fentanyl, Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Crisis. He is a foremost expert on the drug’s history, distribution, abuse, and treatment. For the book he traveled the world interviewing users, dealers, scientists, treatment experts, law enforcement agents, and political leaders, and was the first journalist to infiltrate a Chinese fentanyl lab.
Since publication, Westhoff has advised top government officials on the fentanyl crisis, including at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the U.S. Ambassador to China, the DEA, and the State Department. He was interviewed for full, dedicated episodes of Fresh Air and the Joe Rogan Experience, has written about the fentanyl crisis for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times, and was a subject of a National Geographic channel documentary. He has been an expert commentator for CNN, NPR, BBC, and CBC.
Now, Westhoff appears around the world as a keynote speaker at summits, conferences, university forums and other events, from Baltimore to Las Vegas to Mexico City. His presentations include never-published media from his infiltration of Chinese drug operations and street-level fentanyl reporting in America. His talks focus on all aspects of the fentanyl crisis, from addiction to recovery, from law enforcement tactics to harm reduction efforts, from the drug’s creation to its future.
Westhoff shows how fentanyl became the worst drug crisis in American history, and what we can do about it.
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
