Join us for an insightful conversation with Sam Quinones, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Least of Us and Dreamland. Sam will share his powerful perspectives on the opioid crisis and the rise of synthetic drugs like fentanyl. A discussion and Q&A session will follow. Hosted by the Michael Leonardi Foundation.
Admission is free, but space is limited! Please reserve your spot. Coffee and light refreshments will be served.
Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of four books of narrative nonfiction. His latest book is The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.
In The Least of Us (published November 2021), Quinones chronicles the emergence of a drug-trafficking world producing massive supplies of dope cheaper and deadlier than ever, marketing to the population of addicts created by the nation's opioid epidemic, as the backdrop to tales of Americans’ quiet attempts to recover community through simple acts of helping the vulnerable. 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 landmark Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury, 2015), which ignited awareness of the epidemic that has cost the United States hundreds of thousands of lives, and became the deadliest drug scourge in the nation’s history.
Dreamland won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015..
Sam Quinones is formerly a reporter with the L.A. Times, where he worked for 10 years (2004-2014). He is a veteran reporter on immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, the border.
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The Michael Leonardi Foundation is funded in part by Napa County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) through Opioid Settlement Funds (OSF) to support prevention, intervention, treatment, recovery, and other life-saving programs and services for individuals and families throughout the community.
