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A review by lyssnare
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
5.0
Assigned reading for citizens. It's long, it's not always fun, and I like to think that opiates aren't my problem. But this book is important, and more people need to read it.
Quinones connects the dots between prescription opioids, evolving medical standards on pain management, pharmaceutical marketing, an innovative business strategy for selling heroin, deindustrialization, offshoring, job loss, the decline of community, what health insurances pays for (and doesn't), enforcement, treatment… It goes on.
Everything is connected; prescription drug and heroin abuse are more closely connected to things we all think about than we want to admit. It's important to understand what's happening with opiates, because it's not over. When policy makers debate funding for naloxone to reduce overdose deaths, for example, that's a tactic to address the most visible part of a much larger, intractable problem.
Dreamland tells a compelling story about how drug abuse is intertwined with more visible economic and societal challenges. The solutions to these problems will be similarly intertwined. Read Dreamland—in particular, a later edition with the afterword chapter—to give yourself context for some of the issues that we usually discuss in isolation.
Quinones connects the dots between prescription opioids, evolving medical standards on pain management, pharmaceutical marketing, an innovative business strategy for selling heroin, deindustrialization, offshoring, job loss, the decline of community, what health insurances pays for (and doesn't), enforcement, treatment… It goes on.
Everything is connected; prescription drug and heroin abuse are more closely connected to things we all think about than we want to admit. It's important to understand what's happening with opiates, because it's not over. When policy makers debate funding for naloxone to reduce overdose deaths, for example, that's a tactic to address the most visible part of a much larger, intractable problem.
Dreamland tells a compelling story about how drug abuse is intertwined with more visible economic and societal challenges. The solutions to these problems will be similarly intertwined. Read Dreamland—in particular, a later edition with the afterword chapter—to give yourself context for some of the issues that we usually discuss in isolation.