The Least of Us Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Sam Quinones
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
229

The Least of Us by Sam Quinones Book Summary

Apple Best Books of 2021
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize

From the New York Times bestselling 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 U.S. 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's award-winning Dreamland.

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Book Name The Least of Us
Genre Social Science
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.36 MB

The Least of Us (Sam Quinones) Book Reviews 2024

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Meticulously investigative facts re:epidemic. Wonderful to view the country through the most desolate, strongest, the hardship, worship gratitude and compassion most have in these communities when all one has is kindness of neighbors and how the opioid epidemic and stark distance from wealth and poor. Eye opener for many and several circumstances had my eyes wide open with absolute disbelief then so much angst and empathy. This should be required reading, it’s imperative these days

Couldn’t put this book down. Written honestly and with a compelling narrative. You feel for each of the people described in this story. One of the best books I’ve read this year.

Social Work Essential. This is an excellent book, highlighting how multifaceted addiction is and how recovery may be a straight road, but the width of it may make it seem like it is constantly winding. My only disappointment with this title is the editing and proofreading. I’m not sure with other versions but this one is laden enough with typos, grammatical errors, and misspellings to be occasionally distracting, especially at the cost. The publisher may have rushed a little quickly getting this book of excellent information out, and that in itself is an ironically good comparison to the necessity and importance of our rapidly-evolving attempts at treating the crisis we are currently in.

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The The Least of Us book written by Sam Quinones was published on 02 November 2021, Tuesday in the Social Science category. A total of 229 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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