Sam Quinone s is an independent journalist and author of four acclaimed books of narra tive nonfiction\, including The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth\, as well as Dreamland: th e True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic\, a National Book Critics Ci rcle Award winner. Quinones&rsquo\; career as a journalist has spanned 35 years. Columbia Journalism School selected him as a 2008 recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot prize\, for a career of excellence in covering Latin Ame rica. He is also a 1998 recipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship\, one of the most prestigious fellowships given to print journalists. His knowle dge of American society's abuse of fentanyl\, methamphetamines and opiates has been plumbed by C-SPAN\, PBS\, NPR\, including Terry Gross\, as well as popular podcasters\, such as Marc Maron. In 2018\, he testi fied before the US Senate on the opioid epidemic. \;
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