Dreamland the true tale of America's opiate epidemic
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...
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Bloomsbury Press,
2015.
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| 500 | |a 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. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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