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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic?
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So, reading Dreamland, I was really struck by how multifaceted the opioid crisis is. At least the impression that I got from that book, it seemed like it really started with a perfect storm of pharmaceutical salesmanship, legislation, people not double checking the underlying research, moralization of addiction, a proliferation of unscrupulous pain clinics, and heroin starting to come in from Mexico.
With all those other factors, I'm kinda surprised to see CVS and Walgreens as being places to lay blame. And, reading the comment from kombinacja, it doesn't sound like there's a lot there that they could do differently.
I am from Pike County and I would say Portsmouth more so than Chillicothe. At least Chillicothe gets some growth/money being close to Columbus but Portsmouth is a real bummer. It was sad when I was taking a look at this book and cover looked familiar.
Just to add a bit of context, having read a lot of background literature about the so-called opioid epidemic, for example Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic which is a great source, I can tell you that Dr. Kolodny is infamous for his advocacy of drastic curtailment of licit pain medication. He's not just some rando doc that Bloom is trying to discredit. I should probably have provided some context instead of just posting this link without comment, but I was afraid that I might politicize things and offend people if I inserted my opinion, so I just posted the link to the article without comment. I'm not very good at Reddit.
Black tar heroin from mexico is something a lot of people are dying from. https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503058526&sr=8-1&keywords=dreamland A great read that explains a lot of the opioid epidemic.
Most of my family is from rural KY and meth/heroin has riddled all of their communities.
Read a book sometime -- This is a really good one and entertaining - https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0
It's pretty objectively bad -- https://www.healthy-ky.org/res/images/resources/KHIP-heroin-and-meth-FINAL.pdf
The author, Sam Quiones, also wrote Dreamland. Excellent read.
Strongly recommend that those interested in this nail in the country's coffin read Dreamland.
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