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Podcast: New Books In Public Health
Episode: Sam Quinones, âDreamland: The True Tale of Americanâs Opiate Epidemicâ (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)
Description: In the early 2000s, the pressâat least in Boston, where I was living at the timeâwas full of shrill stories about drug-crazed addicts breaking into area pharmacies in search of something called âOxycontin.â I had no idea what Oxycontin was, but I was pretty sure there must be something remarkable about it if ordinary drug fiends were risking jail time and worse by robbing mom-and-pop drug stores to get it.As Sam Quinones explains in his remarkable book Dreamland: The True Tale of Americanâs Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury Press, 2015), the Oxycontin crime wave was an early mome...