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Name: Dreamland
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Author: Sam Quinones

In Dreamland, journalist Sam Quinones examines how, over the past fifteen years, enterprising sugar‑cane farmers in a small county on Mexico’s west coast built a distinctive distribution system that channels black‑tar heroin—the most affordable and addictive form of the drug—to veins across America. Quinones explores the economics, logistics, and human stories that connect rural Mexico to urban U.S. drug markets, offering insight into the broader social conditions and drug‑trafficking dynamics that fuel the opioid crisis.

First publish date: 2015

Genre: Health & Medicine/General Health

Authors: Sam Quinones

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