Dreamland

Sam Quinones traces America's opioid epidemic from Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of OxyContin in the 1990s through the simultaneous rise of highly efficient Mexican black-tar heroin distribution networks in small American towns. The book interweaves corporate pharmaceutical greed, individual addiction stories and the systematic devastation of rural and working-class communities into a sweeping social investigation.

ISBN 9781620402528 · Bloomsbury Press · 2015