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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the YearAngus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the YearSlate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015Seattle Times' Best Books of 2015Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2015The Guardian's The Best Book We Read All YearAudible's Best Books of 2015Texas Observer's Five Books We Loved in 2015Chicago Public Library's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma to main streets nationwide, an explosive and shocking account of addiction in the heartland of America.
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across Americaaddiction like no other the country has ever faced. 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 classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensiveextremely addictivemiracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroincheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartelassaulted small town and mid-sized 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 a memorable cast of characterspharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parentsQuinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.
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Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the YearAngus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the YearSlate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015Seattle Times' Best Books of 2015Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2015The Guardian's The Best Book We Read All YearAudible's Best Books of 2015Texas Observer's Five Books We Loved in 2015Chicago Public Library's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma to main streets nationwide, an explosive and shocking account of addiction in the heartland of America.
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across Americaaddiction like no other the country has ever faced. 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 classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensiveextremely addictivemiracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroincheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartelassaulted small town and mid-sized 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 a memorable cast of characterspharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parentsQuinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the YearAngus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the YearSlate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015Seattle Times' Best Books of 2015Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2015The Guardian's The Best Book We Read All YearAudible's Best Books of 2015Texas Observer's Five Books We Loved in 2015Chicago Public Library's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma to main streets nationwide, an explosive and shocking account of addiction in the heartland of America.
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across Americaaddiction like no other the country has ever faced. 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 classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensiveextremely addictivemiracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroincheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartelassaulted small town and mid-sized 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 a memorable cast of characterspharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parentsQuinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.
Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the YearAngus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the YearSlate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015Seattle Times' Best Books of 2015Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2015The Guardian's The Best Book We Read All YearAudible's Best Books of 2015Texas Observer's Five Books We Loved in 2015Chicago Public Library's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma to main streets nationwide, an explosive and shocking account of addiction in the heartland of America.
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across Americaaddiction like no other the country has ever faced. 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 classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensiveextremely addictivemiracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroincheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartelassaulted small town and mid-sized 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 a memorable cast of characterspharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parentsQuinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.
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ISBN-13: | 9781620402528 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
Publication date: | 04/05/2016 |
Pages: | 400 |
Sales rank: | 74,597 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
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