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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones
I read this book because I'm studying the Opipid crisis for a paper. I live in Columbus, Ohio and everyone has recommended this book to me for years, and now I know why. There was a lot of interesting, complex storytelling in this book that I enjoyed. It's a good history of Opioids in the United States, especially in Ohio. However, as a person with a disability who's dealt with pain their whole life, there were times when I felt very off put by some of the rhetoric. I didn't feel that this book took serious patient narratives and disability into consideration, and felt like the author was very biast in his feelings about Opioids. He made very blatant connections between Mexican immigrants and drug cartels that seemed potentially harmful. The way that Black and disabled people were written about in this book was also harmful at times. I'm not sure I would recommend it in the current political environment.