Dreamland: The Accurate Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic


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From a modest city in Mexico to the boardrooms of Massive Pharma to major streets nationwide, an explosive and surprising account of dependancy in the heartland of The usa.

In 1929, in the blue-collar metropolis of Portsmouth, Ohio, a enterprise created a swimming pool the size of a soccer field named Dreamland, it grew to become the crucial center of the group. Now, habit has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of compact rural towns and suburbs across The united states–habit like no other the nation has ever faced. How that transpired is the riveting tale of Dreamland.

With a wonderful reporter’s narrative talent and the storytelling potential of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves with each other two basic tales of capitalism operate amok whose unintended collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of soreness medications during the 1990s attained its peak in Purdue Pharma’s marketing campaign to market OxyContin, its new, highly-priced–incredibly addictive–wonder painkiller. In the meantime, a large influx of black tar heroin–cheap, powerful, and originating from a single modest county on Mexico’s west coast, independent of any drug cartel–assaulted compact town and mid-sized cities across the region, driven by a fantastic, practically unbeatable marketing and distribution technique. Together these phenomena go on to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.

Introducing a unforgettable forged of people–pharma pioneers, youthful Mexican business people, narcotics investigators, survivors, and mother and father–Quinones demonstrates how these tales healthy alongside one another. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive menace dealing with The united states and its heartland.

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