Silenced no more : surviving my journey to hell and back
Sarah Ransome
Explores the terrifying stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths, creating, Quinones argues, swaths of mental illness and a surge in homelessness across the United States.