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arialeevaran 's review for:
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones
- OxyContin to heroin
- Heroin epidemic- just how well organized and thought out. The cells, only driving with what they can fit in their mouth, families, the relationship with users!, seeking out addicts, free samples to hook people/ keep them when they’re quitting.
- Race: white teenagers are the demographic now (whole life, money), parallel between leaders of the pharmaceutical industry and Mexican drug cartels: how different the way society views them when they’re literally just the same. Simultaneously humanizing the boys that are drivers and dispatchers (immigration!) while still highlighting the harm they’re doing.
- Len Bias homicide- different prosecution from Portland!
- Did bring drug epidemic closer to upper class white Americans. Leverage with prisons and legislation.
- Athletes- medication for sports injury
- Addiction and self control- how much is a lack of willpower vs a biological predisposition? Narrative of addicts
- America and pain- pain laws protecting doctors
- Reality of rehab and the years of active prevention required. Two years for dopamine receptors to start functioning naturally again