Ben Westhoff

Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative reporter whose books are taught around the country and have been translated around the world, including Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, the bombshell first book about the fentanyl epidemic. He has advised officials at the top levels of government about the opioid crisis, and been interviewed as an expert commentator on CNN, NPR, and CSPAN, and on full, dedicated episodes of Fresh Air and the Joe Rogan Experience. His documentary, called Antagonist, concerns the suppression of the opioid treatment drug naltrexone by big-money interests. He publishes a Substack newsletter called Drugs + Hip-Hop, and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and the Guardian.