Dreamland (YA Edition): The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - Hardcover

Quinones, Sam

 
9781547601318: Dreamland (YA Edition): The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1547601310 ISBN 13: 9781547601318
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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 the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller pushed by pharmaceutical companies, paralleled the massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel.

Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharmaceutical pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, teens, and parents--Dreamland is a revelatory account of the massive threat facing America and its heartland.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. "The most original writer on Mexico and the border" (San Francisco Chronicle), he lives with his family in Tennessee.

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Verlag
BLOOMSBURY
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1547601310
ISBN 13 
9781547601318
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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