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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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that teenagers and others were abusing its billion dollar "wonder" drug. But Justice Department officials balked a decade ago when it came to meting out justice, allowing an opioid...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As an adult book, Sam Quinones's Dreamland took the world by storm, winning the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction and hitting at least a dozen Best Book of the Year lists. Now, adapted for the first time for a young adult audience, this compelling reporting explains the roots of the current opiate crisis. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became...
5) American pain: how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
Author
Publisher
LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The king of the pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic that served as a prototype for the rest. From a pristine former bank building, doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscle-heads ran security, greeting the morning rush of pill poppers with cries of Welcome to the dope hole! Strippers and high-priced hookers operated the pharmacy,...
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Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El apellido Sackler adorna los muros de las instituciones m̀s distinguidas: Harvard, el Metropolitan, Oxford, el Louvre... Es una de las familias m̀s ricas del mundo, benefactora de las artes y las ciencias. El origen de su patrimonio siempre fue dudoso, hasta que sali̤ a la luz que lo hab̕an multiplicado gracias a OxyContin, un potente analǧsico que cataliz̤ la crisis de los opioides en Estados Unidos. El imperio del dolor empieza en la Gran...
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