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DESCRIPTION:“America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth: A Fireside
Chat with Sam Quinones”.Sam Quinones \;is a Los Angeles-based freelanc
e journalist\, a reporter for 35 years\, and author of four acclaimed book
s of narrative nonfiction. He is a veteran reporter on immigration\, gangs
\, drug trafficking\, and the border.He is formerly a reporter with the&nb
sp\;L.A. Times\, where he worked for 10 years. \;Before that\, he made
a living as a freelance writer residing in Mexico for a decade. His lates
t book\, "The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of F
entanyl and Meth\," was published in October 2021. "The Least of Us" chron
icles the emergence of a drug-trafficking world producing massive supplies
of fentanyl and methamphetamine cheaper and deadlier than ever\, marketin
g to the population of people with addiction created by the nation's opioi
d epidemic\, as the backdrop to tales of Americans’ quiet attempts to reco
ver community through simple acts of helping the vulnerable. In January 20
22\,"The Least of Us" was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle (NB
CC) award for Best Nonfiction Book of 2021."The Least of Us" follows his l
andmark "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic" (Bloomsbur
y\, 2015)\, which ignited awareness of the opioid epidemic that has cost t
he United States hundreds of thousands of lives and become the deadliest d
rug scourge in the nation’s history."Dreamland" won a National Book Critic
s 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\, Buzzfee
d\, Seattle Times\, Boston Globe\, St. Louis Post-Dispatch\, Entertainment
Weekly\, Audible and in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business by
Nobel economics laureate\, Professor Angus Deaton\, of Princeton Universi
ty.Quinones’ first two books grew from his 10 years living and working as
a freelance writer in Mexico (1994-2004). "True Tales From Another Mexico:
The Lynch Mob\, the Popsicle Kings\, Chalino and the Bronx" was released
in 2001. In 2007\, he came out with "Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: Tr
ue Tales of Mexican Migration."For more information on Sam Quinones’ and h
is publications\, visit his website. \;The Annual Herbert Lourie Memo
rial Lecture is held in honor of Herbert Lourie\, M.D.\, a distinguished p
hysician and member of the national and international medical communities
in the field of neurosurgery. Each lecture in this series hosts a notable
speaker from one of the many facets of the health care field.
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SUMMARY:America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth: A Fireside Chat
with Sam Quinones
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“America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl an
d Meth: A Fireside Chat with Sam Quinones”.
Sam Quinones \;is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist\, a reporter for
35 years\, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. He
is a veteran reporter on immigration\, gangs\, drug trafficking\, and the
border.
He is formerly a reporter with the \;L.A. Times\, where
he worked for 10 years. \;Before that\, he made a living as a freelanc
e writer residing in Mexico for a decade.
His latest book\, "The Le
ast of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
\," was published in October 2021. "The Least of Us" chronicles the emerge
nce of a drug-trafficking world producing massive supplies of fentanyl and
methamphetamine cheaper and deadlier than ever\, marketing to the populat
ion of people with addiction created by the nation's opioid epidemic\, as
the backdrop to tales of Americans’ quiet attempts to recover community th
rough simple acts of helping the vulnerable.
In January 2022\,"The
Least of Us" was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) award
for Best Nonfiction Book of 2021.
"The Least of Us" follows his lan
dmark "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic" (Bloomsbury\
, 2015)\, which ignited awareness of the opioid epidemic that has cost the
United States hundreds of thousands of lives and become the deadliest dru
g scourge in the nation’s history.
"Dreamland" won a National Book C
ritics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. It was also sele
cted as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Amazon.com\, the Daily Beast\, Bu
zzfeed\, Seattle Times\, Boston Globe\, St. Louis Post-Dispatch\, Entertai
nment Weekly\, Audible and in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Busine
ss by Nobel economics laureate\, Professor Angus Deaton\, of Princeton Uni
versity.
Quinones’ first two books grew from his 10 years living and
working as a freelance writer in Mexico (1994-2004). "True Tales From Ano
ther Mexico: The Lynch Mob\, the Popsicle Kings\, Chalino and the Bronx" w
as released in 2001. In 2007\, he came out with "Antonio's Gun and Delfino
's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration."
For more inform
ation on Sam Quinones’ and his publications\, visit his website. \;
The Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture is held in honor of Herbert Lo
urie\, M.D.\, a distinguished physician and member of the national and int
ernational medical communities in the field of neurosurgery. Each lecture
in this series hosts a notable speaker from one of the many facets of the
health care field.
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