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Dreamland: True tale of (Native) America's opiate epidemic
From Indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
Pain pills and heroin addiction are sweeping through many Native communities. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health the percentage of Native Americans reporting current use of prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes is higher than that for any other racial group.
Where did it come from? How did this happen? White people do those drugs, right? Glad you asked.
When I read a book or watch a movie, whether I try or not, I always filter it through the lens of "How does this affect my community?" I think that's natural -if a tornado happens, it's common to want to know if your house is going to get blown over before you think of everyone else. This book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic is about drugs and movement and social organization. Specifically, Dreamland is about how Oxycontin, Oxycodone and later heroin (collectively called "The Morphine Molecule" in this book) came to be an epidemic all over America within the past 20 years. Those drugs have taken over whole towns and communities by storm and seem to have come from no place and seem to work in concert. Where the heck did they come from and how did that happen? This book does a pretty amazing job of answering those questions.
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