Dreamland · the True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Quinones, Sam -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents The Xalisco Boys Heroin Cells in the United States Xalisco County in Nayarit, Mexico Timeline PREFACE: Portsmouth, Ohio Introduction PART I

Enrique Dr. Jick’s Letter All from the Same Town Liberace in Appalachia The Adman Enrique Begins The Molecule Delivered Like Pizza Enrique Alone The Poppy Easier than Sugarcane Just a Phone Call Away Enrique Adrift Searching for the Holy Grail The Pain Pain and the Pro Wrestler The Man Comes The Revolution All About the 501s The Landmark Study Enrique Redeemed We Realized This Is Corporate Purdue The Man and the Nayarit Swing with OxyContin The Man at Home What’s OxyContin? Smack Clans in the Sanctuary Liberace Shows the Way The Man in the Heartland Bodies Are the Key to the Case Enrique on Top Heroin Like Hamburgers Tar Pit

PART II

Two-Thousand-Year-Old Questions Collision: Ground Zero Canaries in Coal Mines Fifty, Hundred Cases a Month Junkie Kingdom in Dreamland A Criminal Case “Took Over the OxyContin Belt” The Final Convenience A Tidal Wave Forming Pentecostal Piety, Fierce Scratches “We Was Carrying the Epidemic” More Cases Than Car Crashes A Pro Wrestler’s Legacy Great Time to Be a Heroin Dealer The Criminal Case

PART III

“Now It’s Your Neighbor’s Kid” Like Cigarette Executives No Scarface, No Kingpins A Parent’s Soul Pain

PART IV

America The Treatment Is You The Internet of Dope Nobody Can Do It Alone

PART V

Up from the Rubble

Acknowledgments Source Notes A Note on the Author By the Same Author Copyright Page