KING OF BOISE

By the end of his teens, Austin Serb was the biggest drug dealer in Boise, Idaho, a multi-millionaire with a closet full of Air Jordans, a diamond-studded Rolex and a RX-7 modeled after the Fast and Furious film franchise. But how did a home-schooled kid become the “King of Boise?” This story tells the tale of the opioid crisis from the perspective a teenage dealer who got rich, then got addicted.

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