Dreamland:  The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones ISBN 978-1-62040-250-4  (Bloomsbury Press:  2015) 350 pages plus index Many of us are puzzled, confused and stunned by the rapid expansion of addiction to pain-killing medicines that has swept across America in the 21st century. In a recent year, over 16,000 people died from overdoses of prescription pain-killing drugs – more than from all illegal drugs combined. We always thought that drug addiction was limited to big-city ghettos and Hollywood celebrities; heroin was virtually unknown across the heartland of America.  And yet, the reality today is that many small and mid-sized towns in America contain substantial populations who came to their addiction through entirely legal pain-killing medicines.  How could that have happened? Sam Quinones answers that question with this gripping presentation of the intertwined pathways of prescription drugs and Mexican...(Read Full Article)