Dreamland : : the True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

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Call Number: 362.293 Qu, Adult Book / Nonfiction / True Crime / Quinones, Sam
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

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Featuring a Mexican town, a drug company, a letter to the editor, pain doctors, and pill mills, a true tale of drug marketing and the search for happiness in an age of excess.
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the veins of people across the United States.

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Dreamland submitted by elizaand on June 23, 2018, 4:46pm Great book! Provides great insight to the opiate epidemic.

Great insight submitted by selujules on July 31, 2019, 5:28pm Fascinating! Lots of research and data, but also human stories.

Eye-opening submitted by paserbamr on August 18, 2022, 10:55am One of my favorite books -- provides a fascinating history and personal stories of the US opiate epidemic.

Well Researched submitted by danzoia on July 28, 2023, 9:27pm Very well researched look at the opiate epidemic, includes lots of ground level stories as well as higher view of the problem.