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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781620402511
  • 1620402513
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dreamland the story of America's new opiate epidemicDDC classification:
  • 362.29/30973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV5840.M4 Q56 2014eb
Online resources: Summary: 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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"Featuring ... (or with ... ) a Mexican town, a drug company, a letter to the editor, pain doctors & pill mills, a true tale of drug marketing & the search for happiness in an age of Excess."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Print version record.