‘The deadliest drug we’ve ever known’: author Sam Quinones on how fentanyl saturated the US

In his new book, Quinones investigates how the explosion of synthetic drugs spurred an epidemic of addiction'

For the last nine years, Sam Quinones has been studying the changing face of drug use, sales, and addiction in the United States.

In his new book The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, he tracks the explosion of synthetic drugs that has hit the streets of America, increasing the danger of drug use and making addictive chemical substances far cheaper and more plentiful than ever before.