Excerpt from Dopesick

Question 1

When did she start reporting? Where?

Answer 1

2012, Roanoke VA

Question 2

How long did she write about marginalized families for and in what paper?

Answer 2

Roanoke Times, 2 decades

Question 3

How long of days did the doctors work?

Answer 3

14 hour days

Question 4

What did one of the relatives of one who was lost to drugs request?

Answer 4

An MP3 recording of her departed loved one’s interview

Question 6

When did Ronnie Jones have his first visitor?

Answer 6

2 years into a 23 year sentence, day pushing 100 degrees, August 2016(?)

Question 7

Where was Ronnie jones held?

Answer 7

Hazelton Federal Correctional Instituion on outskirts of Bruceton Mills, WV

Question 8

What had once dominated Preston County?

Answer 8

Strip-mining

Question 9

What was Preston County bordering?

Answer 9

Maryland and Pennsylvania

Question 10

What did Jones unleash and where?

Answer 10

“Tsunami of Misery” on Woodstock, VA

Question 11

What was the last Ronnie’s kids saw of him?

Answer 11

He delivered them birthday cupcakes to school a week before his arrest

Question 12

Where did the newly addicted Woodstock users go after Ronnie’s arrest?

Answer 12

Baltimore, Washington, Martinsburg, and WV

Question 13

What was the nickname for WV?

Answer 13

Little Baltimore

Question 14

Where did a batch of heroin land and how many people did it kill?

Answer 14

Huntington, WV (4 hours west of Jone’s cell), killed 26 people in a day

Question 15

What drug caused the death of 26 people?

Answer 15

Carfentanil

Question 16

Where is Carfentanil from?

Answer 16

China

Question 17

What is Carfentanil?

Answer 17

An elephant sedative, 100 times stronger than fentanyl which is 25-50 times stronger than heroin

Question 18

How far after a certain epidemic is this? And what is the epidemic?

Answer 18

2 decades after the opioid epidemic

Question 19

How many lives had drug overdose taken and in what amount of time?

Answer 19

300,000 over the past 15 years

Question 20

How many more are predicted to die in how many years?

Answer 20

300,000 in the next 5 years

Question 21

How old and who was Kristi Fernandez’s son?

Answer 21

19, Jesse Bolstridge

Question 22

When did she go to the grave with Kristi?

Answer 22

Spring of 2016, three months before visiting Jones

Question 23

Where was his grave?

Answer 23

Strasburg, VA in the shadow of Signal Knob

Question 24

What number is on Jesse’s jersey?

Answer 24

55

Question 25

What was Jesse's school's mascot?

Answer 25

Strasburg Rams

Question 26

What describes Jesse?

Answer 26

Ladies man, boy next door, jokester

Question 27

What word did Jesse begin most of his sentences with?

Answer 27

Dude

Question 28

What is engraved on Jesse's headstone and what phrase?

Answer 28

Cat's paw, and the phrase MISS YOU MORE

Question 29

What signs does Kristi see that remind her of Jesse?

Answer 29

55 in license plate, and Mother's Day Brunch receipt for $64.55

Question 30

What job did Jesse have?

Answer 30

Construction worker

Question 31

What usually happens when a new drug enters a country?

Answer 31

Starts in big cities and spreads to hinterlands

Question 32

How did opioid epidemic start?

Answer 32

Began in Appalachia and Maine + rust belt counties

Question 33

When was Jesse born?

Answer 33

Mid-1990s

Question 34

Where does Dopesick begin?

Answer 34

in coalfields, in hamlet of St. Charles, Virginia

Question 35

How does Dopesick begin?

Answer 35

Introduction of painkiller, OxyContin in 1996

Question 36

What did Oxycontin shift to?

Answer 36

Heroin, pill's illicit twin

Question 37

What did heroin shift to?

Answer 37

Stronger synthetic analogs

Question 38

Who is Ginger Mumpower?

Answer 38

A prominent jeweler and civic leader

Question 39

How long was Spencer Mumpower going to prison?

Answer 39

5 years

Question 40

Why was Spencer Mumpower going to prison?

Answer 40

Involvement in a former classmate's overdose

Question 41

What might you have witnessed if you live in a city?

Answer 41

A sharps container in a restroom or a librarian administer Narcan

Question 42

Where is Ronnie Jones from?

Answer 42

Washington suburbs

Question 43

What van was Ronnie Jones in?

Answer 43

VA Department of Corrections

Question 44

Who was going to turn into heroin addicts?

Answer 44

Football players, tree trimmers and farmer's kids

Question 45

What is the most important thing for addicts?

Answer 45

Avoiding dopesickness

Question 46

What is Jesse's grave adorned with?

Answer 46

Teddy bears, R2-D2 figures, and the words "UNTIL I TAKE MY FINAL BREATH, YOU WILL LIVE IN MY HEART"

Question 47

What is the heroin highway?

Answer 47

I-81

Question 48

Where did Jones camouflage his heroin?

Answer 48

Pringle's cans and plastic Walmart bags

Question 49

Who is Tess Henry?

Answer 49

Straight-A Student and basketball star

Question 50

What happened to Tess?

Answer 50

Went AWOL, Only see her through Facebook exchanges with her heroin dealer or a prosti ad

Question 51

What store does Ginger Mumpower own?

Answer 51

Ginger's Jewelry

Question 52

Who provides America with a brand new version of morphine used in Civil War?

Answer 52

German elixir peddlers at Bayer Laboratories

Question 53

What pill did the German's provide?

Answer 53

A pill marketed as a cough remedy and cure for morphine epidemic, known as "morphinism" or soldier's disease

Question 54

What battlefield does she pass by?

Answer 54

New Market, 1864 Civil War battlefield

Question 55

Where did Ronnie Jones first arrive and to do what?

Answer 55

George's Chicken, to work in a Department of Corrections work-release program

Question 56

What signs and flags are put up towards WV?

Answer 56

HILLARY FOR PRISON and Confederate flags

Question 57

Who ushers her through security?

Answer 57

Handler named Rachel

Question 58

How many locked doors does she go through?

Answer 58

3

Question 59

How does the air smell in the recreation room?

Answer 59

like Clorox

Question 60

What does Ronnie Jones look like?

Answer 60

Baggy prison khakis, thinner and older, trim Afro, beard flecked with gray, whites of eyes tinged with red

Question 61

What colors are Rachel's uniform?

Answer 61

Blue and Beige

Question 62

What color is the whole room?

Answer 62

Beige