On Tuesday, September 25th, the Leadership Legacy Experience will be hosting Sam Quinones to give his talk on “The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” as a part of our Legacy Speaker Series.
Doors open: 6:30pm Event starts: 7pm
Dodd Center – Konover Auditorium
Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author and former reporter with the L.A. Times. He is a veteran reporter on immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, and the border. His latest book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic.
Dreamland recounts twin stories of drug marketing in the 21st Century: A pharmaceutical corporation flogs its legal new opiate prescription painkiller as nonaddictive. Meanwhile, immigrants from a small town in Nayarit, Mexico devise a method for retailing black-tar heroin like pizza in the US, and take that system nationwide, riding a wave of addiction to prescription pills from coast to coast. The collision of those two forces has led to America’s deadliest drug scourge in modern times.
For more information, contact: Kayla Brown at 860-486-6588