Sam Quinones

“When your kid’s dying from a brain tumor or leukemia, the whole community shows up. They bring casseroles. They pray for you.…

— Sam Quinones

“Excess contaminated the best of America. Caltech churned out brilliant students, yet too many of them now went not to science but…

— Sam Quinones

“The cost savings weren’t what did the trick, though. Treatment has always been more effective and cheaper than prison for true drug…

— Sam Quinones

“Certain parasites in nature exert the kind of control that makes a host act contrary to its own interests. One protozoan, Toxoplasma…

— Sam Quinones

“Worldwide pharmaceutical opiate production rose steadily but it was the United States...that now consumed 83 percent of the world's oxycodone and fully…

— Sam Quinones

“In fact, pain was really not a vital sign, after all, for unlike the four real vital signs it cannot be measured…

— Sam Quinones

“Most of the country’s twenty-eight hundred drug courts are set up to divert drug abusers away from jail and prison and into…

— Sam Quinones

“Why then do we wonder that heroin is everywhere? In our isolation, heroin thrives; that's its natural habitat. And our very search…

— Sam Quinones