Dreamland - the true tale of America`s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner.

With a new afterword by the author

"Every so often I read a work of narrative nonfiction that makes me want to get up and preach:  Read this true story!  Such is Sam Quinones' astonishing work of reporting and writing."  Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times

Entertainment Weekly's 10 best books of 2015    Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction books of 2015    The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015    The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015

"A book that every American should read"  The Christian Science Monitor

Addiction has devastated hundreds of cities, small towns, and suburbs across America.  How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. 

With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two tales of capitalism catastrophically run amok.  The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990's reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive - extremely addictive - miracle painkiller.  Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin - cheap, potent, and originating from one small county of Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel - assaulted small towns and midsize cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system.  Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.

Introducing pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents - Quinones shows how these tales fit together.  Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland. 

Book is in excellent condition - as new.

Soft cover.