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ekb523 's review for:
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones
Here and there I catch an article about "the opioid epidemic" but (to my knowledge) it hasn't directly affected me/those I'm close to, so I honestly never paid close attention. This book is absolutely fascinating and draws together all of the various factors that over a very short period of time (~25 years) has led to such a massive problem. It seems like literally the perfect shitstorm of big pharma, black tar heroin, a brilliant (and terrifying) drug marketing and sales strategy, a declining economy, and legitimate medical attention to the concept of pain (especially chronic pain). This book was one of Nicholas Kristof's recommended readings, so I knew it would be good, but I didn't expect to be as shocked and invested as I now am.