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

3.0

An interesting book, somewhat hobbled by the author's own lazy speculation, backed up by bias more than sense or research. Virulent fatphobia makes for a poor explanation of an addiction epidemic, and it's really screwed up how urban communities and black people in particular exist in the narrative of the book largely as marginal shadows, the inferior creatures set as a contrast to white suburban heroin addicts. The actual reporting was interesting, but the author needs to share 99.99999% fewer of his own opinions, which by and large are garbage.