RaveThe MillionsThis is America in 2015, and as Sam Quinones describes in his astonishing, monumental new book...we’re in the midst of \'the worst drug scourge to ever hit the country,\' measuring by its death toll ... Quinones takes readers over some of the terrain New York Times reporter Barry Meier mapped in his 2003 book on OxyContin, Pain Killer: A \'Wonder\' Drug’s Trail of Addiction and Death ... Dreamland picks up the same threads that Meier explored, and Quinones’s chapter-long riff on OxyContin’s rise is a masterpiece. I would reprint here it in full, if I could; it’s that important and well reported ... The U.S. will never solve its deadly opiate epidemic if we don’t first admit we have a problem. And Dreamland is one of those rare books that’s big and vivid and horrifying enough to shake up our collective consciousness.
