Sam Quinones

Journalist, author of the four books👆 I mostly (re)tweet stories, mine&others, like a news service. I don't argue on Twitter. No blue check but it's really me.

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Deportations and Protests

2 weeks ago | samquinones.substack.com | Sam Quinones

I envy people who know how they feel about immigration, particularly illegal immigration from Mexico. Long before I wrote two books about our nation’s drug-addiction epidemic, I lived in Mexico for a decade (1994-2004) and wrote mostly about Mexican immigration, probably more than any other American journalist at the time. Spent a ton of time in Michoacan, Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and other immigrant-sending states.
Dreamland: A Sam Quinones newsletter

3 weeks ago | samquinones.substack.com | Sam Quinones

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Dreamland: A Sam Quinones newsletter

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Dreamland: A Sam Quinones newsletter

Feb 28, 2025 | samquinones.substack.com | Sam Quinones

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Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.

Feb 6, 2024 | thefp.com | Sam Quinones

It's been a minute since I've been to Hazard. I'm glad to hear good news. Tyler Childress' "Nose on the Grindstone" has been the anthem of that region for a while. He's from a town not too far from there. Kentucky recentliy also passed a law authorizing research into Iboga/Ibogaine for opoid addiction.
Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.

Feb 6, 2024 | thefp.com | Sam Quinones

In early 2020, Mandi Fugate Sheffel, 42, opened a tiny bookstore in her hometown of Hazard, in eastern Kentucky. Everyone thought she was crazy. Downtown Hazard was a forbidding place to start any business, much less a bookstore. The coal mines that once supported the area had closed over the past few decades. Many brick buildings from Hazard’s heyday were gone, bequeathing a gap-toothed look to Main Street. The rest were empty or occupied by attorneys and bail bondsmen.
Supply, not demand, is the true driver of our fentanyl crisis

Feb 5, 2024 | texasmetronews.com | Sam Quinones

By Sam QuinonesFrom – https://www.phillytrib.com/Reprinted – by Texas Metro NewsBefore Mexico’s cartel wars, I lived in the country for 10 years. I didn’t write much about drugs, focusing instead on immigration. But if asked, I’d have probably agreed with the Mexican line: Demand for drugs from the United States was creating supply.
Supply, not demand, is the true driver of our fentanyl crisis

Feb 3, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Sam Quinones

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Supply, not demand, is the true driver of our fentanyl crisis

Feb 3, 2024 | phillytrib.com | Sam Quinones

Before Mexico’s cartel wars, I lived in the country for 10 years. I didn’t write much about drugs, focusing instead on immigration. But if asked, I’d have probably agreed with the Mexican line: Demand for drugs from the United States was creating supply.
Supply, not demand, is the true driver of our fentanyl crisis

Jan 31, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Sam Quinones

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