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Heroin: US addiction soars in 'quiet drug plague'
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Apr 21, 2015
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Heroin: US addiction soars in 'quiet drug plague'
Fatal overdoses of heroin in the US have almost tripled in three years. Why has the drug become so pervasive? Where does it come from and how are authorities trying to combat its use?
Used syringes are discarded at a needle exchange clinic.
Used syringes are discarded at a needle exchange clinic.
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Fatal overdoses of heroin in the US have almost tripled in three years. Why has the drug become so pervasive? Where does it come from and how are authorities trying to combat its use?

Fatal overdoses of heroin in the U.S. have almost tripled in three years. Why has the drug become so pervasive? Where does it come from and how are authorities trying to combat its use?

Los Angeles-based journalist Sam Quinones travelled across North America seeking answers to these questions. The result is a book called Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic.

Read an excerpt below:

Copyright ©2015 by Sam Quinones         
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury



Upcoming reading:



WHAT: Sam Quinones discusses and signs Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic



WHERE: Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, California, 91101



WHEN: April 23, 2015, 7:00pm



MORE INFO: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/sam-quinones-april-2015