Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction; 2 of which closely connect to the NYAIVU project - Dreamland and The Least of Us.

 

Dreamland won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. It was also selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Amazon.com, the Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Entertainment Weekly, Audible, and in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business by Nobel economics laureate, Prof. Angus Deaton, of Princeton University.  

 

 The Least of Us, released in 2021, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) award for Best Nonfiction Book of 2021. The Least of Us deepens the story of our nation's opioid epidemic to include the spread of mass supplies of synthetic drugs (fentanyl and meth).

 

In Ep. 024, Sam joins us to talk about the perfect storm of professional experience that led him to telling the true tale of America's Opioid Epidemic, how that experience evolved into his follow up project, and offers some input on what individuals and communities can do to best support people seeking recovery from substance use disorder.

 

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