With Sam Quinones and Johann Hari

Airs Wednesday, February 3, 2016

During this week’s radio show you will learn about:

• How Drugs Were Dealt with Before They Were Banned
• Why Drugs Were  Banned –  It Isn’t What We’ve Been Lead to Believe
• The Connection Between the United States Addiction Epidemic and Pain Relievers
• How Addiction Moved From Big Cities to the Suburbs

 

Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction.His most recent book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Bloomsbury Press. His career as a journalist has spanned almost 30 years. He lived for 10 years as a freelance writer in Mexico, where he wrote his first two books. In 2004, he returned to the United States to work for the L.A. Times, covering immigration, drug trafficking, neighborhood stories, and gangs. Learn more about Sam here.

 

Johann Hari is a British journalist. He has written for many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian,the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the Nation, Slate, El Mundo,and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was a lead op-ed columnist for the Independent, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, for nine years. Author of Chasing the Scream, He is currently working on his next book, and is a Visiting Fellow with Purpose, the New York-based progressive campaigning group. Learn more about Johann here.