Dream land : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic
Quinones, Sam (, 1958-)
Dream land : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic / Sam Quinones - New York : Bloomsbury Press , 2015 - 374 p. ; : 21 cm. - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English.
9781620402528
Drugs---Traffic---Mexico
Drug addiction---United States
Heroin
Opioids---United States
362.293 QUI
Dream land : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic / Sam Quinones - New York : Bloomsbury Press , 2015 - 374 p. ; : 21 cm. - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English.
9781620402528
Drugs---Traffic---Mexico
Drug addiction---United States
Heroin
Opioids---United States
362.293 QUI