Zócalo Public Square

At a Zócalo/UCLA event moderated by Reuters editor Lisa Girion, Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: True Tales of America’s Opiate Epidemic, UCLA legal scholar and health policy expert Jill Horwitz, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Benjamin Barron, and Larissa Mooney, Director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic, discussed a public health crisis that has killed more than 200,000 Americans in the past decade and affects 20 million people today: opioid addiction. They offered their experiences, research, and thoughts on what is driving this problem and how we can combat it.