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Dreamland's Opiate Epidemic

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Dreamland’s primary focus and purpose are to detail the opiate epidemic as it relates to provincial America. The stories here are remarkable because they’re set in quiet, quaint little towns. The author of Dreamland tries to uncover the detail of the spreading of opiate epidemic and revolution of drug addiction in the US. From one story to another, I meet doctors, judges, dealers, junkies, cops, district attorneys, and families. So impressive, that almost all stories here were occurred in quiet, little towns. According to Quinones, turns out that in the 1980-90s, there was in US medical circles a revolution in pain management. The story was complicated, medical science came to be widely accepted as true. Doctors came to believe that opiates
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