libkatem 's review for:

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

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This was hard to read. Which is probably why it took so long for me to read it. The writing is often repetitive, but Quinones is really trying to drive home these overlapping cycles of the Opiate epidemic. There was the rise of the prescriptions pills, and the influx of Mexican black tar heroine. And of course, bad bad insurance companies that are less interested in care (even if it's cheaper in the long run), than they are the bottom line.

It's a complex set of problems. I don't know what the solution is, but I have hope we can find it together.