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Library to Welcome National Expert on the Opiate Epidemic

Tuesday, October 3 at 7:00 p.m. Author Sam Quinones discusses his award-winning book Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Special to The Truth

In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America—addiction like no other the country has ever faced.

How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, amongst other honors.
Acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two riveting tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been a catastrophic opiate epidemic.

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, Xalisco, Nayarit, on Mexico’s west coast and independent of any drug cartel, assaulted small town and mid-sized 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.

Finally, though, Quinones finds hope in the same Rust Belt river town that led the country into the opiate epidemic – Portsmouth, Ohio, where townspeople are turning away from dependence and toward economic as well as municipal self-reliance and, with that, recovery.

Introducing a memorable cast of characters—pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents —Quinones shows how these tales fit together.

Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland. The Toledo Lucas County Public Library in partnership with the Mental Health & Recovery Services Board of Lucas County is proud to host this important community conversation. The author’s presentation will be followed by Q and A, and a book sale and signing opportunity.

Quinones will  discuss his work on Tuesday, October 3 at 7:00p.m. at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Main Library in the McMaster Center .

 
   
   


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