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"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 rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller...
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Quinones was among the first to see the dangers of synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths-- at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent. He investigated these new...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: Sam Quinones's “The Least of Us” (2021) is an in-depth analysis of drug use and addiction in America, and how it has been exacerbated by Mexican smugglers, drug traffickers, and pharmaceutical companies. Quinones chronicles the American opioid epidemic and explores the far-reaching damage generated by the meth and fentanyl crises. This follow-up to his bestseller...
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones: Conversation Starters
Author Sam Quinones published the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic in 2015. Quinones writes about the shocking and explosive account of addiction in America. It was 1929 in Portsmouth, Ohio. A company built a community swimming pool that was the size of a football field. It became the heart of the community. They named it Dreamland....
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Batman '89 volume 1
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Step back into the Gotham of Tim Burton's seminal Batman movies! Batman '89 brings in screenwriter Sam Hamm (Batman, Batman Returns) and artist Joe Quinones (Dial H for Hero) to pull on a number of threads left dangling by the prolific director. Gotham becomes torn in two as citizens dressed as Batman and The Joker duke it out in the streets. As D.A. Harvey Dent tries to keep the city together, he targets the one problem tearing it apart: Batman!...
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Dial H for Hero volume 1
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What would you do if you could become any superhero for just an hour? The catch? Who you become is absolutely random. Teenage Miguel Montez discovers the long-lost H-Dial, an ancient and unbelievably powerful rotary phone that gives its users (seemingly) random superpowers for one hour. With evil factions desperate to get their hands on its power, Miguel steals the only mode of transport he can-his uncle's food truck! Join Miguel as he hightails it...
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Dial H for Hero volume 7
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As Miguel and Summer settle into their roles as both Metro-polis's youngest heroes and newest residents, they discover being a hero doesn't exactly pay the rent. They better figure that out, because Mister Thunderbolt and the Operator are in a race to claim the two remaining H-Dials, with the entire Multiverse hanging in the balance! It all leads to Miguel's confrontation with his most dangerous opponent yet-himself!
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