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Sam Quinones: Recovering Addicts Are Having a Bottom-Up Revolution in This Small Kentucky Town

Published: March 4, 2024, 10 a.m.

Journalist and author Sam Quinones returns to the Strong Towns Podcast for the third time to discuss a recent, moving article he\u2019s written for The Free Press: \u201cOpioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.\u201d It\u2019s the story of Hazard, a small town that was hit hard by the decline of coal mining and the rise of the opioid epidemic\u2014and yet its residents aren\u2019t letting their town go down without a fight.\nADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES\n\n\u201cOpioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It,\u201d by Sam Quinones, The Free Press (February 2024).\n\n\nSam Quinones (Twitter/X).\n\n\nSam Quinones (website).\n\n\nChuck Marohn (Twitter/X).