Dreamland : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic /
Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past fifteen 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, two to three times purer than its white powder...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2015.
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| Summary: | Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past fifteen 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, two to three times purer than its white powder cousin, to the veins of people across the United States. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 368 pages : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781620402504 1620402505 9781620402528 1620402521 |