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Dreamland The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones

Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rur...

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

This book was highly recommended for its deep dive into the opioid crisis, detailing how pain was treated as a 'fifth vital sign' and the ensuing lies about addiction risk associated with drugs like Oxycontin.

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I'm going to guess. You've read this book. If you haven't, this needs to be the next thing that you. Sam Quinonez, Dreamland. Where he goes. Okay. I figured you'd be all over this. It is an amazing bo...

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This book was highly recommended for its deep dive into the opioid crisis, detailing how pain was treated as a 'fifth vital sign' and the ensuing lies about addiction risk associated with drugs like Oxycontin.

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I'm going to guess. You've read this book. If you haven't, this needs to be the next thing that you. Sam Quinonez, Dreamland. Where he goes. Okay. I figured you'd be all over this. It is an amazing book.

It is an amazing book. He's an L.A. Times reporter. It's a great book. I don't care. I don't know what his politics are. The politics don't come through in the book. Just a lot of really interesting information.

And when he goes into the basis for what you said, the fifth sign is pain.

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