2023 Conference Program Book

PLENARY SESSION

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

This webinar will feature Sam Quinones' research and discovery that developed his latest book "The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth". In this session, Sam will discuss the essential characteristics of life’s accounts leading up to the nation’s opioid epidemic, share community recovery efforts to improve overdose prevention and reversal interventions to save lives and help the vulnerable, and illustrate how the latest emerging drug threats of fentanyl and meth have heightened the drug epidemic's deleterious effects. In The Least of Us (published October 2021), Quinones chronicles the emergence of a drug-trafficking world, production of massive supplies of drugs cheaper and deadlier than ever marketed directly to individuals vulnerable to opioid use disorders, as the backdrop to tales of Americans' quiet and determined attempts to recover community through simple acts of helping the vulnerable. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Sam Quinones Journalist & Author

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