We invite you to join us for a conversation with Sam Quinones, a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist, a reporter for 37 years, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. He is a veteran reporter on immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, the border.
In The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, Quinones chronicles the emergence of a drug-trafficking world producing massive supplies of synthetic drugs (fentanyl and meth) cheaper and deadlier than ever, marketing to the population of addicts created by the nation’s opioid epidemic. With The Least of Us, Quinones broke the story of how the methamphetamine now produced in Mexico has covered the U.S. and is creating widespread and rapid-onset symptoms of schizophrenia, becoming in the process a major driver in the country’s homeless problem.
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 become deadliest drug scourge in the nation’s history.
Crosspoint exists to build safer and stronger communities by empowering individuals to lead productive lives.
With the right combination of resources, services, and vision, we believe that successful community reintegration is possible.
Crosspoint has provided a wide array of services to tens of thousands of Veteran, state hospital patients and formerly incarcerated men and women as well as individuals experiencing issues related to homelessness, mental illness, mental disability, and financial responsibility. Wherever there has been a need; Crosspoint has found a way to assist through mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, life skills enhancement and/or transformational residential services. Through these services, Crosspoint has been able to help thousands of our citizens once again be productive members of the community
We invite you to join us for a conversation with Sam Quinones, a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist, a reporter for 37 years, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. He is a veteran reporter on immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, the border.
In The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, Quinones chronicles the emergence of a drug-trafficking world producing massive supplies of synthetic drugs (fentanyl and meth) cheaper and deadlier than ever, marketing to the population of addicts created by the nation’s opioid epidemic. With The Least of Us, Quinones broke the story of how the methamphetamine now produced in Mexico has covered the U.S. and is creating widespread and rapid-onset symptoms of schizophrenia, becoming in the process a major driver in the country’s homeless problem.
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 become deadliest drug scourge in the nation’s history.
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Crosspoint exists to build safer and stronger communities by empowering individuals to lead productive lives.
With the right combination of resources, services, and vision, we believe that successful community reintegration is possible.
Crosspoint has provided a wide array of services to tens of thousands of Veteran, state hospital patients and formerly incarcerated men and women as well as individuals experiencing issues related to homelessness, mental illness, mental disability, and financial responsibility. Wherever there has been a need; Crosspoint has found a way to assist through mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, life skills enhancement and/or transformational residential services. Through these services, Crosspoint has been able to help thousands of our citizens once again be productive members of the community
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