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Author:

Quinones, Sam, 1958- author.

Title:

Dreamland : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic / Sam Quinones.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 368 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Drug traffic--Mexico.
Drug addiction.
Heroin abuse.
Oxycodone.
Narcotics.
American Dream.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1620402521
9781620402528
1620402505
9781620402504

LCCN:

2014025398

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