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Samquinones shows how the invention of oxycontin revolutionized pain treatment. Author identifies a small town in mexico and the factors that contributed to it becoming the nerve center from which a unique and wildly successful type of * distributorsh... Read More
Sam quinones has a talent for distilling, arranging, and presenting findings into a lucid and coherent whole. His prose is lyrical, elevating it to rival anything by dostoevsky or lampedusa. The book grips you in the two parallel stories of oxycontin ... Read More
Cons
Quinones is repetitive and seems to forget what he just wrote two chapters earlier. It * me to not finish a book, but i just couldn't. Author completely ignores those who use opiates appropriately and legally.
It reads more like a collection of articles than a cohesive narrative. The author relies completely on anecdote. For instance, he refers to one trafficker as the man throughout the story, which starts out clunky and becomes annoying as he revisits it.... Read More
Pill and * addicts don't belong in aa, says author. He lamely casts the culprits as west-coast mexican entrereneurs developing black-tar *.
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Told via brief vignettes about both traffickers and victims as well as details about the blood on the hands of the medical esta... Read More
Very pleased with how quickly i received the book
Many with the resources will probably whistle past the literal and figurative graveyards
Packaging/appearance
Now i wonder what is going on with fentanyl turning up across the country
Competitiveness
Medicaid allowed people to get pills at government expense and then resell them on the black market at a profit
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- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 8,845 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 28 2023.
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My education in sociology and lived oppression tell me the opioid epidemic is only recognized because it affects people of privilege
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Strong opioids like fentanyl cause devastating problems where there are none
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People full of hope and blessed with opportunities are dying
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Don’t get me wrong…mining and other workers were the target market for large scale legal drug pushing in the decade before and after the millennium
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Drug war has been waged on the inner city ostensibly to combat the problem as it continues to drop good people in record numbers
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It is a good thing we are learning that chemical dependency does not discriminate
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It’s impossible to legislate this problem away because clandestine superlabs just tweak the formula usually in advance of new opiates being identified and scheduled
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As another reviewer said it’s what we need to know not what we want to know
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