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A child inside Ready Set Play toy store in Hazard, Kentucky. (Stacy Kranitz for The Free Press)
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By Oliver Wiseman
02.07.24
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Sam Quinones has been covering America’s opioid epidemic for about a decade. He detailed the decline of Appalachia in his seminal book, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.

But a funny thing happened when he went to the town of Hazard, Kentucky, last spring. Even though the town sits in the county most devasta…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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