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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate…
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (original 2015; édition 2016)

par Sam Quinones (Auteur)

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Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the veins of people across the United States.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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Info:Bloomsbury Press (2016), Edition: Reprint, 400 pages
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic par Sam Quinones (2015)

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    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America par Beth Macy (sparemethecensor)
    sparemethecensor: Dopesick looks at the same issue in a more focused fashion.
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    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty par Patrick Radden Keefe (Stbalbach)
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    Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic par Barry Meier (AKBouterse)
    AKBouterse: An earlier book about Oxycontin
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    The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth par Sam Quinones (lulaa)
    lulaa: Together, these provide a masterful, humanistic and even hopeful exploration of the ongoing opiate/fentanyl/meth epidemic in the U.S., its costs to families and communities.
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I was just finishing “Dreamland” — a book published in 2015, before the Trump reign — as the returns of the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump came rolling in. Early on there was a hint that Biden might flip Ohio from the Republicans, but that was not to be.

Dreamland is largely set in the border town of Portsmouth, Ohio, facing Kentucky on the Ohio River.

The area appears to be part of the Republican rural stronghold.

According to Quinones compelling, strange, and frightening story it was also Ground Zero for the confluence of two major trends in rural American life: the seeming endless supplies of painkillers sometimes dispensed by dubious “pills mills,” pain treatment clinics, and the growth of high grade heroine imported by an endless stream of drug runners from a small, poor, and rural Mexican community.

Not only were poor, often unemployed in rural America subject to the pill economy, but relatively wealthy suburbanites and their children were dragged into it, sometimes motivated by the same forces that kept them on top: affluence.

Even as I read this book hundreds of millions of pain killers are prescribed across America — and here in Canada — where physicians often haven’t the time nor the expertise to manage paid reduction regimens, or the expertise to wean their patients off them.

Quinones’ story begins with a small town in prosperous America enjoying the industrial expansion of the early 1900’s and ends with that same town trying to repair its footing after most of the jobs have left, the town tax rolls impoverished, and a booming business in drug rehab.

The pain and resentment of Trump followers aside, rural America is slowly making a comeback, particularly as the COVID pandemic moves a lot of those downtown urban jobs back to the hinterland.

This is a story of communities in evolution.

It’s not pretty but really relevant. ( )
  MylesKesten | Jan 23, 2024 |
one of those books you want to share with everyone... without having to push it on anyone... and you regret the fact that the book ever needed to be written. ( )
  zizabeph | May 7, 2023 |
I found this book to be a fascinating read although admittedly repetitive. Quinones does a great job of researching the many factors that lead to today's opiate epidemic. I feel like this is a warning tale in so many respects because one of the big underlying causes was a media narrative that evolved that American medicine was under-treating pain supplemented by another journalistic faux pas that said opiates weren't as addictive as people thought. It didn't take much for some immoral executives to start pushing Oxycontin and creating a generation of addicts (white, suburban) that never existed before. The icing on the cake was that heroin traffickers discovered that if they delivered their goods like pizza, they'd make a lot more money and reach many new customers. All of these factors are explained in detail, and the details are interesting. I just wish Quinones had had a better editor. There's a lot of repetition in the book, and it wasn't necessary. His writing style is very accessible though, and honestly even if you only read the first half of the book, I think you'd get a lot out of it. ( )
  Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 |
Read this for book club. It was interesting, engaging, and educational on a topic I did not know much about. Reading about the Xalisco boys I felt like I was listening to an NPR episode of, "How I Built This" My only complaint was that I thought the book could use a bit more editing. It seemed odd that the author kept adding in paragraphs summarizing the history of the Xalisco boys as if we didn't know who they were, despite already having read 150 pages about them. ( )
  bangerlm | Jan 18, 2023 |
"Every so often I read a work of narrative nonfiction that makes me want to get up and preach: Read this true Story! Such is Sam Quinones' astonishing work of reporting and writing" --Mary Ann Gwin. The Seattle Times
  Doranms | Aug 18, 2021 |
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... a meticulously researched new book ... Mr Quinones tells many tragic tales, including of the deaths of teenagers drawn to heroin after they were wrongly prescribed strong opioid painkillers. He also has some more uplifting stories of policemen and district attorneys who slowly pieced together the Xalisco Boys’ business model and took action
ajouté par Lemeritus | modifierThe Economist (payer le site) (Jul 30, 2015)
 
...a book that every American should read. And I state that without reservation ... Dreamland is the result of relentless research and legwork on the part of Quinones, as well as his talented storytelling. The opiate addiction epidemic was caused by a convergence of multiple, seemingly unrelated factors, and Quinones takes these narrative strands and weaves them together seamlessly.
 

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In 1929, three decades into what were the great years for the blue-collar town of Portsmouth, on the Ohio River, a private swimming pool opened and they called it Dreamland. -Preface
In the middle-class neighborhood on the east side of Columbus, Ohio, where Myles Schoonover grew up, the kids smoked weed and drank. But while Myles was growing up he knew no one who did heroin. -Introduction
One hot day in the summer of 1999, a young man with tight-cropped hair, new shoes, a clean cream-colored button-down shirt, and pressed beige pants used a phony U.S. driver's license to cross the border into Arizona. -Part I
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West Virginia was one of the seven states with no known Mexican drug-trafficking presence, according to a U.S. Department of Justice 2009 report I had seen. Police had a simple reason for this: There was no Mexican community in which to hide. Mexican immigrants followed the jobs, functioning as a sort of economic barometer: Mexicans in your community meant your area was growing. Huntington and West Virginia had no jobs, no Mexicans either.
Like no other particle on earth, the morphine molecule seemed to possess heaven and hell. It allowed for modern surgery, saving and improving too many lives to count. It stunted and ended too many lives to count with addiction and overdose. Discussing it, you could invoke some of humankind’s greatest cultural creations and deepest questions: Faust, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, discussions on the fundamental nature of man and human behavior, of free will and slavery, of God and evolution. Studying the molecule you naturally wandered into questions like, Can mankind achieve happiness without pain? Would that happiness even be worth it? Can we have it all?
“No physician would simply go on with the same unsuccessful treatment, but that is what happens with opioids,” said Loeser. “Patients come and say, ‘That’s great, Doc, but I need more.’ The doctor gives them a higher dose. Then, three months later, they say the same thing, and so on. The point is if it were working, you wouldn’t need more.”
FDA examiner Dr. Curtis Wright, supervisor of the agency’s team that examined Purdue’s application, thought OxyContin might well possess addictive side effects and thought its only benefit was to reduce the number of pills a patient had to take every day. “Care should be taken to limit competitive promotion,” Wright is quoted as writing in an FDA report by the New York Times’s Barry Meier in his 2003 book on OxyContin, Pain Killer. Wright later left the FDA to work for Purdue.
The FDA approved a unique warning label for OxyContin. It allowed Purdue to claim that OxyContin had a lower potential for abuse than other oxycodone products because its timed-release formula allowed for a delay in absorbing the drug. “No other manufacturer of a Schedule II narcotic ever got the go-ahead from the FDA to make such a claim,” Meier wrote. “It was a claim that soon became a cornerstone of the marketing of OxyContin.”
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Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the veins of people across the United States.

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