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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, Sam Quinones’ third book, chronicles the evolving opioid epidemic in the United States and Mexico. It chronicles the rise of black tar heroin in America, originating from a small county on Mexico’s West Coast and distributed by a group of Mexican immigrants called the Xalisco boys. It also tells the story of an addictive painkiller called OxyContin, recommended by large pharmaceutical companies, as it spreads through small rural towns and suburbs across the United States.
Dreamland won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. The book, according to The Wall Street Journal, is “a compelling examination and a driven, important narrative.”

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Fireside Reads
• Release date: Sep 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005694753

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Before being an award-winning journalist, Sam Quinones used to produce punk rock concerts. He even wrote a thesis on the bebop jazz revolution of the 1940s.

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In the United States alone, there were nearly 30,000 deaths related to prescription painkillers and heroin reported in 2014. Demographics of new opiate users from that time were found to be white people, middle-aged women, while most were teenagers with good backgrounds. Heroin use, which was once thought as concentrated in major coastal cities, surprisingly spread to smaller rural, interior cities and towns. In the blink of an eye, opioid addiction has become an epidemic, and in his book Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, Sam Quinones illustrates that this epidemic did not appear overnight, but was instead driven by a complex mix of globalization, industrial restructuring, poverty and affluence, and the changing medical and pharmaceutical ideologies and