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Nancy Pearl And The New Face Of Opiate Addiction

caption: "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic," by journalist Sam Quinones
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"Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic," by journalist Sam Quinones

Marcie Sillman gets Nancy Pearl's opinion on "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic," by journalist Sam Quinones. The book talks about the new generation of heroin addicts: they're young, white, relatively well-off, and they buy their fix the same way they order a pizza.

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