The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

by Sam Quinones

Fentanyl and this new meth were in the interest of traffickers, not their customers.

Much of that was due to illicit street fentanyl. By the time this book is published,

Carfentanil was ten thousand times more potent than morphine.

with much less risk and only a modest investment, generate astounding profits.

Medical studies have found that two-thirds of patients using opioid painkillers for more than ninety days were still using them five years later. The