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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Call Number: HV5840.M4 Q56 2016
ISBN: 9781620402528
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two tales of capitalism catastrophically run amok. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel--assaulted small towns and midsize cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.

One to One: "Dreamland" Author Sam Quinones

Bill speaks with journalist Sam Quinones, author of "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic". Part of KET's Inside Opioid Addiction Initiative funded in part by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.

Dreamland: America's Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Where We Are

Sam Quinones speaking at Dartmouth

About the Author: Sam Quinones

Sam Quinones is a journalist, author, and storyteller whose tow acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration - True Tales from Another Mexico and Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream - have made him, according to the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, "the most original writer on Mexico and the border." He writes Dreamland: A Reporter's Blog, and edits Tell Your True Tale, a storytelling page. Sam lives in Southern California.

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Author Visit

Author Visit to Campus

October 27

Common Book Convocation: 3pm-4pm

October 28

Town Hall - Healing Together: Confronting the Opioid Crisis

Town Hall - Healing Together: Confronting the Opioid Crisis
ABC6 News & the Ohio Opioid Education Alliance investigate the increase in opioid overdose deaths. A variety of panelists offer viable solutions to a widespread problem affecting every corner of the state.

Panel:

Attorney General Dave Yost

Lori Criss, Director, Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Dr. Hal Paz, Executive Vice President and Chancellor for Health Affairs, The Ohio State University Chief Executive Officer, Wexner Medical Center

John Rush, CEO, CleanTurn

Sarah Nerad, Co-founder, Heartland High School

Amy Becher-Smith, Director of Outpatient Treatment Services & QA/QI Officer, Community for New Direction

Judge Fred Moses, Hocking County Vivitrol Drug Court

Katie Sprague, Consultant Substance Free Workplace, Nationwide

Paula Haines, Executive Director, Freedom a la Cart

Moderator: Bob Kendrick, ABC 6 Anchor

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