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Purchase Dreamland:
"...a masterpiece. "
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"...combines thorough research with superlative narrative skills ... compulsively readable ... A book that every American should read. And I state that without reservation."
"... brilliantly interwoven by a master of narrative nonfiction. Powerful and important..."
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
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"The writing is crisp and the short chapters had me reading one and then `just one more.'"
"This book is simply amazing, a harrowing and tragic story that could not be more beautifully told."
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This is the type of book that once you start reading, you don't stop, as I discovered the past six hours."
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"... like a transnational episode of The Wire."
Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
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"astonishing, monumental. ... The U.S. will never solve its deadly opiate epidemic if we don’t first admit we have a problem. And Dreamland is one of those rare books that’s big and vivid and horrifying enough to shake up our collective consciousness.
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“There are not enough stars in the rating system to accurately explain how important this book is. … Every word is important and every story heartbreaking. Every fact astonishing but true. I thank Sam for keeping this conversation going and for bringing research and heart to the table.”
A suburban mother and recovering addict/NetGalleys
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Dreamland
selected
National Book Critics Circle award
Nonfiction
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 America—addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic.
Acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two riveting tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been a catastrophic opiate epidemic.
NPR's Morning Edition • New York Times • PBS' NewsHour • Salon.com• Wall Street Journal
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, Xalisco, Nayarit, on Mexico’s west coast and independent of any drug cartel, assaulted small town and mid-sized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable
marketing
Christian Science Monitor • The American Conservative• Esquire•Seattle's KUOW•The Economist • Kirkus• Texas Observer • The Leonard Lopate Show/WNYC• Willamette Week
and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.
Finally, though, Quinones finds hope in the same Rust Belt river town that led the country into the opiate epidemic - Portsmouth, Ohio, where townspeople are turning away from dependence and toward economic as well as municipal self-reliance, and, with that, recovery.
Introducing a memorable cast of characters—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.
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Finalist
Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico)
Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ)
Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ)
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19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
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The Best Book We Read All Year
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"Many nonfiction books are padded magazine features, but Dreamland, the three-pronged story of how heroin addiction became epidemic in small-town America, is the book Quinones had to quit his job at the L.A. Times to write. You won’t find this story told better anywhere else, from the economic hollowing-out of the middle class to the greedy and reckless marketing of pharmaceutical opiates to the remarkable entrepreneurial industry of the residents of the obscure Mexican state of Nayarit. All of these factors combined to create an opiate-addicted population in small American cities like Portsmouth, Ohio, where residents, priced out of pill mills, turned to a new, and newly cheap, high. Dreamland—true crime, sociology, and exposé—illuminates a catastrophe unfolding all around us, right now."
Laura Miller, Slate.com
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