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Description
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 1990s 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 on 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.
ISBN
9781620402528
Convocation Date
10-27-2020
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Keywords
Drug Traffic, Mexico, Drug Addiction, Heroin Abuse, Oxycodone, Narcotics, Otterbein University, Common Book
Disciplines
Modern Literature | Reading and Language
Recommended Citation
Quinones, Sam, "2020 Common Book Selection: Dreamland" (2020). Common Book Program. 9.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commonbook/9