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Sam Quinones
Personal blog · samquinones.com/reporters-blogwritingpolitics
Sam Quinones's personal blog at samquinones.com covers writing and politics. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for writing on the American drug epidemic, including overdose deaths and prime-age male non-workers. One commenter recommends his book Dreamland on intersecting prescription pill and heroin use.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Something to highlight in this article is the prevalence of pain medication use among the out-of-work population: "Apart from the small fraction (around 13% in 2015) of prime-age male non-workers who are adult students, the remainder report spending many of their waking hours watching and playing on screens — over 2,000 hours per year on average. Almost half of these non-working men report taking pain medication on…
Comment linking /reporters-blog/2016/11/21/donald-trump-opiates-america/
on “Education and Men without Work”Submitted Orchard Supply Hardware and the Mediocrity of Millionaires as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRecommended reading if this interests you: Dreamland tells the story of intersecting prescription pill and heroin use in America. http://www.samquinones.com/books/dreamland/
Comment linking /books/dreamland/
on “How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America”