Dreamland
Subtitle: the true tale of America's opiate epidemic
By: Sam Quinones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781620402504; 9781620402528
Subjects: American Dream; Drug traffic; Oxycodone; Opioids; Drug addiction; Heroin abuse; Narcotics
Other titles: Dream-land :
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.