Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the highly-acclaimed, bombshell first book about fentanyl, Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Crisis. He is a foremost expert on the drug’s history, distribution, abuse, and treatment. For the book he traveled the world interviewing users, dealers, scientists, treatment experts, law enforcement agents, and political leaders, and was the first journalist to infiltrate a Chinese fentanyl lab.

Since publication, Westhoff has advised top government officials on the fentanyl crisis, including at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the U.S. Ambassador to China, the DEA, and the State Department. He was interviewed for full, dedicated episodes of Fresh Air and the Joe Rog ...