Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Name: Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Author: Sam Quinones
ISBN: 9781547601417

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Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones

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Dreamland won the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction and was named to at least a dozen Best Book of the Year lists. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller pushed by pharmaceutical companies, paralleled the massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel. Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharmaceutical pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, teens, and parents-- Dreamland is a revelatory account of the massive threat facing America and its heartland.

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