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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
This was very interesting. I learned is that there is no one group to blame for the opiate epidemic. I got angry with the drug companies, marketing companies, doctors, the government, the opportunistic Mexican dealers, and on and on. My only complaint with this book is that it seemed disorganized. The story wasn't told sequentially and was kind of all over the place and seemed to get repetitive after a while. Still worth a read to anyone interested in this subject.
informative
slow-paced
Surreal to read some of these passages as a kid raised by two pill and heroin addicted parents.
Welfare and pills, man.
Welfare and pills, man.
read for NF book club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_Jd3qewkY
Very solid read, great research. Sometimes it reads like a series of essays edited together roughly, lots of repetition at times, and there's a few subjects I wish it went deeper into, such as the role of white/black/Latino race relations and prejudices, but it covers a lot of bases and it the history it sketches feels comprehensive.
The story is important but the writing was choppy and redundant. It was a disorganized collection of anecdotes sprinkled into a larger piece of newspaper style reporting.
Great book whose narrative ties together the legal and illegal drug markets to explain opiate addiction in the US.
Eye opening peek into how America ended up in the midst of a battle over Opioids.
I was in a darkened room listening to two presenters with their different vantage points on opiates in the workplace, and during the talk, they mentioned the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic. I disagreed with what seemed to be the presenters’ fundamental premise that drugs are evil, and are to blame for the problems we face as a society, but that made me more interested in reading the book they seemed to be drawing from. Perhaps, in my desire to understand addiction, I had somehow ended up on a side street rather than a main thoroughfare of perspectives on addiction.
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Haunting and fascinating narrative about the opiate history and crisis in America.