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

While individual sections are well written and interesting, there is a great deal of overlap and redundancy in the book that could have been eliminated.

So depressing. Educate yourself people!

Great informative read

As someone who sort of works in social services and sees heroin and prescription drug abuse I️ was looking for a book that provided some good information about where it all came from. This provided that and more. The writer is excellent and provides a fascinating background for this epidemic all while being non-judgmental and sowing the seeds for hope. This writer has been extremely thorough in investigating this whole ordeal and while he shows this epidemic spreading like a web throughout our country he shows the growth and progression of the epidemic using a town in Ohio which reminded me so much of my own hometown and several other hometowns in states that I️ have visited. Well worth the read