For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, WPR’s Elliot Waldman is joined by   Ben Westhoff, a journalist who spent the past few years chronicling the rise of fentanyl. He shares insights from his reporting, which took him from Midwestern towns to a Chinese laboratory to a treatment center in Slovenia.

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