Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland

How did heroin spread beyond big cities? What's the connection between heroin and America's opioid problem? Sam Quinones talks with host Russ Roberts about the explosion in heroin use, and how one small Mexican town changed how heroin was produced and sold in America and became entangled with the growth in using pain-killers as recreational drugs. Drawing on the investigative reporting that culminated in his book, Quinones lays out the recent history and economics of the growth in heroin and pain-killer usage and the lost lives along the way.

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