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Author Quinones, Sam, 1958- author.

Title Dreamland : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic / Sam Quinones.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2015.
©2015.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1631842~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  362.293 QUI    DUE 04-17-24
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Description xii, 368 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Drug traffic -- Mexico.
Drug addiction.
Heroin abuse.
Oxycodone.
Narcotics.
American Dream.
Added Title Dream land : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic
ISBN 9781620402504 (hbk.)
1620402505 (hbk.)
9781620402528 (pbk.)
1620402521 (pbk.)
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