Dreamland : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic
Title:
Dreamland : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic
Author:
ISBN:
9781620402504
9781620402528
Physical Description:
xii, 368 pages : maps ; 25 cm
General Note:
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.
Summary:
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.
