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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones
This book was really eye opening into how the current heroin epidemic evolved from pain pills. I had forgotten the messaging when opiates were becoming a common pain killer that people in real pain would not get addicted because the would not find much euphoria. The book talked about the messaging and how it has been proven to be wrong.
I found it interesting that some addiction specialists said that these people getting hooked on opiates would have likely gotten hooked on some other drug, such as alcohol, later on in life. According to them, alcohol takes a longer time to grab ahold of a person and become an addicting substance versus the opiates. So it's almost a pull ahead of addictions.
I hope we don't swing back to the time when opiates were hardly ever prescribed. Hopefully we land somewhere back in the middle and take a holistic approach versus the quick pill "fix".
I found it interesting that some addiction specialists said that these people getting hooked on opiates would have likely gotten hooked on some other drug, such as alcohol, later on in life. According to them, alcohol takes a longer time to grab ahold of a person and become an addicting substance versus the opiates. So it's almost a pull ahead of addictions.
I hope we don't swing back to the time when opiates were hardly ever prescribed. Hopefully we land somewhere back in the middle and take a holistic approach versus the quick pill "fix".