Dreamland : The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

from bangerlm

Read this for book club. It was interesting, engaging, and educational on a topic I did not know much about. Reading about the Xalisco boys I felt like I was listening to an NPR episode of, "How I Built This" My only complaint was that I thought the book could use a bit more editing. It seemed od...

from

In Dreamland, former Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones expertly recounts how a flood of prescription pain meds, along with black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico, transformed the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, and other American communities into centers of addiction. Using exhaustive ...

from TheAmpersand

Dreamland is important book, and perhaps even an essential one, but it's by no means perfect. The author does a lot of things very well here. He's good on background, telling readers how both doctors' and patients' perceptions of pain, coping strategies, and opiates evolved over the course of the...

from Stbalbach

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic is essential reading because we will all be in pain someday, and doctors will want to prescribe opiates, for example 120 pills when you might only need 10. Eighty-percent of the worlds opiates are prescribed in the USA. We live in a culture of...

from breic

Powerful story of the heroin epidemic. It follows both the drug dealers and the physicians, while also giving us tear-jerking stories from the addicts and their families. Quinones does a good job explaining the economics of the epidemic, from all perspectives. I found the explanation of the pill ...