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... be of value to my community. Jeffrey Brown : Still, economic progress in Hazard and across Appalachia remains uneven, as drug addiction rages on. Even still, Sam Quinones believes Hazard now has a fighting chance and offers a model for other small towns. Sam Quinones: This attitude that we need to ...
... of their ability to pay for it. That treatment has to be easier to access than a bag of dope if we want to see overdose deaths coming down. William Brangham: All right, Andrew Kolodny, Sam Quinones, thank you both very much. Sam Quinones: Thank you. Andrew Kolodny: Thank you.
... died from heroin use in 2014, a 26 percent increase for the year. The CDC report said heroin overdoses more than tripled in four years. Sam Quinones told the NewsHour in February how painkiller abuse can lead to a heroin addiction. "Oxycodone is very, very similar. Almost identical to heroin ...
... of two kinds of drugs, right, two opiates. SAM QUINONES: Two opiates. JEFFREY BROWN: One is legal in the U.S., prescription drugs for pain. SAM QUINONES: Right. JEFFREY BROWN: And then there's this heroin market on top of that. Somehow, they're linked. SAM QUINONES: Yes. And what ...
... is that heroin has become a cheaper alternative for users already addicted to opiate painkillers. NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown spoke with Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones about this issue in February. Quinones said: Oxycodone is very, very similar — almost identical to heroin. The problem is that there is a ...
... available drugs after the FDA's crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse. In February, Jeffrey Brown spoke with National Drug Control Policy director R. Gil Kerlikowske and Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones about why heroin use in America has doubled since 2007 and the deadly consequences for users and addicts.
... SAM QUINONES: No, we have got -- our federal prison system is becoming the depository for numerous legendary Mexican narcos. I suspect he will be right there pretty soon. JEFFREY BROWN: So, Sam Quinones, Alejandro Hope, thank you both very much. SAM QUINONES: Thank you. ALEJANDRO HOPE: Thank you very much.
... of years by Congress, even though the president has asked for about $20 million. Kids get plenty of pro-drug messages. We need to give them anti-drug messages, particularly around heroin, that work. JEFFREY BROWN: Gil Kerlikowske and Sam Quinones, thank you both very much. SAM QUINONES: Thank you.
... more than 9,000 people since Calderon took office in December 2006, according to the Associated Press. "A lot of change has come to Mexico," Sam Quinones, a Los Angeles Times reporter and author of the book, "True Tales from Another Mexico," told the NewsHour Wednesday. "So the new government ...
... conversation.RAY SUAREZ: The book is "Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration." The author is "Los Angeles Times" reporter Sam Quinones. I recently spoke with him at a day labor market just outside Washington, D.C.Sam Quinones, welcome.SAM QUINONES, Author, "Antonio's ...
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