Goodreads asked Otho Eskin:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Otho Eskin I devour the news, and I saw the headlines about the opioid crisis. Like many Americans, I was horrified by the Sackler family’s greed and callousness toward human lives. I was also aghast to learn of the FDA’s complicity in the crisis. Government regulators failed to scrutinize the science that drug manufacturers cited in support of opioids’ use. So I asked myself, “How can I turn my outrage into narrative?” I really do believe that art is a powerful antidote to violence.

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