02923cam a2200349 4500 329463334 TxAuBib 20170929120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620402511 1620402513 B00U19DTS0 Amazon c8a88fb7-c369-454c-b113-9703b1816d57 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2141104 OverDrive (Product ID) 2141104 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Quinones, Sam. Dreamland [Libby] : The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1028kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>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 <i>Dreamland</i>.</p> <p>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, 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 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.</p> <p>Introducing a memorable cast of characters—pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents—Quinones shows how these tales fit together. <i>Dreamland</i> is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.</p>. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-09-29 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/dreamland-c8a88f?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/dreamland-c8a88f?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/dreamland-c8a88f?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXKYP