tiareleine 's review for:

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

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An interesting and very engaging read about a crime wave that is really a public health crisis. Quinones brought together several threads of the crisis (overprescription of opiates, deindustrialization and the decline of the Midwest, the Mexican heroine trade) very well. My only complaint was in what I assume was an attempt to reiterate some of the important themes, the narrative was repetitive at times.