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Summary of Sam Quinones's Dreamland documents the rise of opium-based addiction in the United States between the 1980s and the 2010s. Journalist Sam Quinones explains how an ideological shift within the medical community during the 1980s and 1990s led to an increase in the number of opiates prescribed to patients and fueled the modern-day opiate crisis...
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2015.
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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.
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