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

4.0

Really good reporting and writing. Quinones is mostly a journalist so he just writes what people say and do. He doesn't have the knowledge to back up all the claims in this book. Which is fine, but the book is too repetitive sometimes, and he could've cut some of it out and fill it with arguments from neuroscientists or psychologist, or whoever that could give another perspective. At the very end there were people doing recovering and talking groups, stating that a better enviroment and a sense of community was a better way to fight an addiction epidemic than open a bunch of recovery clinics. But those chapters were too short, and that argument should be explore more. But I guess this is not that book. I'll recommend Carl Hart for that, if you haven't heard of him.