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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
It's a good book I feel like I learned things, but it's a bit of a bummer. Hard to keep opening it up once more.
Overall the book was very informative and shed new light on both the role prescription opiates and black tar heroin played in the opiate epidemic. The main flaw of the book in my opinion is the sheer repetition of stories. The uniqueness of the drug dealers and how they chose their cities was re-emphasized too many times. I feel the book could have been shorter and still gotten its point across. Normally I wouldn't care about repetition, but saying the same thing basically the same way many times didn't add anything new. However, had it not retraced the same territory, the story itself was fascinating and well told and I think important information was conveyed effectively.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you're aware of the opioid addiction problem in this country. This book lays it all bare - where and how it started, who turned blind eye, who dove right in and who simply didn't see what was right in front of them. I highly recommend this book.
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medium-paced
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slow-paced
This book has a huge amount of information in it, and I loved that part. I did find it to be a bit confusing because of the organization of the chapters. One chapter would be about people affected by heroin, the next about the legal battles around prescription opioids, then to a chapter about a black tar heroin dealer, then back to the legal battles, then back to the heroin dealers, etc. I could see how the chapters somewhat built on each other, but it was hard to keep up with at times. Overall, I would recommend the book because of the in-depth knowledge that the author has about heroin and opioids.
Very repetitive - should have been 100 pages shorter. Still an important read.
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3.5. So this book was educational. Don’t get me wrong I did like it and feel like I learned a lot about the history of the opioid epidemic, the disease of addiction, and and how it all is intertwined with the heroin. However, this book is extremely non fiction and therefore was hard for me to get into and keep up with. It was also tough because there were SO many characters to keep track of throughout the book, but again extremely educational