Underworld Economy & Wall Street Create Tent Cities - Sam Quinones, The Least of Us

Untold numbers of people across North America have been caught up
in the wake of the opioid crisis - loved ones lost, lives
interrupted, cities overrun with addicts. This tableau has
unfolded in countless cities, against the faraway backdrop of an
underworld drug empire that terrorizes the people of Mexico.
Author Sam Quinones has spent the last decade of his life on both
sides of the border, reporting from the front lines. He's traced
the origin of the crisis, detailed the toll it took on the
government of Mexico, the people living there, and how unlimited
quantities magic pain pills erased an entire generation, with no
regard for social or class lines. What makes this conversation
unique is that, despite the darkness he's seen, Quinones has
finally found a glimmer of hope among the wreckage. We talk
destruction, absolution, and rebirth. We talk of the drug wars,
of the way that wall street colluded to make the crisis, and how
we all played a role. But more than that, we talk about the way
that we can pull ourselves out of this mess, by taking a lesson
from the cities where the crisis really started.
  

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