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

by Quinones, Sam, 1958-

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Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

Drug traffic -- Mexico.

Drug addiction.

9781620402504 (hc.)

1620402505 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Dream land : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic

True tale of America's opiate epidemic

xii, 368 pages : maps ; 25 cm

"The relentless marketing of pain pills. Crews from one small Mexican town selling heroin like pizza. The collision has led to America's greatest drug scourge." -- Page [1] of jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Mexican town, a drug company, a letter to the editor, pain doctors, and pill mills, a tale of drug marketing and the search for happiness in an age of excess. 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"--Provided by publisher.

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