One of the most important books of the decade:
They couldn’t conceive of their children on heroin. For every symptom, the parents had an answer. Did they see burned aluminum foil around the house? We thought he was burning incense. Was he slurring his speech? He was getting over the flu. Were his grades falling? He was going through a phase.
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Drug overdoses passed fatal vehicle accidents nationwide for the first time in 2008.
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It was true about much of a country where the streets were barren on summer evenings and kids no longer played Kick the Can as parents watched from porches. That dreamland had been lost and replaced, all too often, finally, by empty streets of bigger, nicer houses hiding addiction that each family kept secret.
Sam Quinones — Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
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