Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Fairly extensive look at the opioid crisis and the intersection with the Mexican black tar heroin trade. This book is incredibly repetitive. The subject matter is fascinating in its own terrible way, and I recommend reading this if it's a topic of interest but by all means skim if you find yourself thinking “he just talked about this anecdote a chapter ago.”

Well-written, blistering book about the opiate explosion. The author skillfully draws together many strands of a complicated story. However, somewhere after the middle of the book, he tells the same story over and over and over and over and...

couldnt put this down