La verdadera historia de la epidemia de opiáceos en Estados Unidos
From a small town in Mexico to Big Pharma boardrooms and major streets across the country, this is a shocking tale of addiction in America's heartland, of an epidemic unlike any other the country has ever faced, which has devastated hundreds of small towns and suburbs. With the skill of a reporter and the narrative skills of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves two stories about a crazed capitalism whose unintended collision has been catastrophic. On the one hand, the unlimited prescription of pain medications during the 1990s, which reached its climax in the campaign to market OxyContin, a miraculous, expensive and extremely addictive painkiller. On the other, the massive influx of cheap and potent heroin, which swept small towns and medium-sized towns, driven by a brilliant marketing and distribution system. Both phenomena continue to devastate communities from coast...read more
