A Blizzard of Prescriptions
Emily Witt: The Pain Lobby, 4 April 2019
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
by Chris McGreal.
Faber, 316 pp., £12.99, November 2018,978 1 78335 168 8 Show More
by Chris McGreal.
Faber, 316 pp., £12.99, November 2018,
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones.
Bloomsbury, 400 pp., £12.99, June 2016,978 1 62040 252 8 Show More
by Sam Quinones.
Bloomsbury, 400 pp., £12.99, June 2016,
“... the effects of opiate use in Appalachia, where she worked as a newspaper reporter. Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, describes the rise of a super-efficient network of dealers of Mexican black tar heroin in the US and its effects on one particular town in Ohio. American Overdose, by Chris McGreal, a correspondent for the Guardian, offers a more detailed view ... ”
