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

An episode of [The Strong Towns Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/369032477), 4 Mar 2024, 26 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/68rnb7/ST_-_Quinones84n0x.mp3

Journalist and author Sam Quinones returns to the Strong Towns Podcast for the third time to discuss a recent, moving article he’s written for The Free Press: “Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.” It’s the story of Hazard, a small town that was hit hard by the decline of coal mining and the rise of the opioid epidemic—and yet its residents aren’t letting their town go down without a fight. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES • “Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It,” by Sam Quinones, The Free Press (February 2024). • Sam Quinones (Twitter/X). • Sam Quinones (website). • Chuck Marohn (Twitter/X).

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