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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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Main Author:	Quinones, Sam, 1958- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Drug traffic > Mexico. Drug addiction > United States. Heroin abuse > United States. Oxycodone > United States. Narcotics > United States. American Dream.

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