A young Colombian American grapples with injury, a fractured family and his personal identity in this transnational coming-of-age journey. QUICK FIXES: Drugs in America From Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, by Benjamin Y. Fong. In this account, Fong examines America’s historical relationship to nine different drugs, highlighting the tension between an embrace of pharmaceuticals and the belligerence of the “war” on drugs. FRAGMENTED: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care, by Ilana Yurkiewicz. Discontinuities caused by insurance companies, reliance on software and contemporary medical culture are the U.S. health care system’s “greatest problem,” writes Yurkiewicz.

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Persons: Shumona Sinha, Teresa Lavender Fagan, GREGORIO PASOS, Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya, Benjamin Y, Fong, Ilana Yurkiewicz, ” Organizations: Health Locations: Paris, Colombian American, America, U.S