Episode
Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland
EconTalk · Jan 23, 2017 · 1 h 10 min
How did heroin spread beyond big cities in America? What's the connection between heroin and America's opioid problem? Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the explosion in heroin use and how one small Mexican town changed how heroin was produced and sold in America. That in turn became entangled with the growth in the use of pain-killers as recreational…