Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Dreamland is journalist Sam Quinones's account of how America's opioid epidemic took hold. Quinones weaves together two stories: the aggressive marketing of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, which helped spread addiction across small-town America, and the rise of a network of heroin dealers from Xalisco, Mexico, who delivered cheap black-tar heroin like pizza. He shows how the two forces fed each other, and what they did to communities.

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