Dreamland
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Preface Introduction Part 1: Enrique Part 1: Dr. Jick’s Letter Part 1: All from the Same Town Part 1: Liberace in Appalachia Part 1: The Adman Part 1: Enrique Begins Part 1: The Molecule Part 1: Delivered Like Pizza Part 1: Enrique Alone Part 1: The Poppy Part 1: Easier than Sugarcane Part 1: Just a Phone Call Away Part 1: Enrique Adrift Part 1: Searching for the Holy Grail Part 1: The Pain Part 1: Pain and the Pro Wrestler Part 1: The Man Comes Part 1: The Revolution Part 1: All About the 501s Part 1: The Landmark Study Part 1: Enrique Redeemed Part 1: We Realized This Is Corporate Part 1: Purdue Part 1: The Man and the Nayarit Part 1: Swing with OxyContin Part 1: The Man at Home Part 1: What’s OxyContin? Part 1: Smack Clans in the Sanctuary Part 1: Liberace Shows the Way Part 1: The Man in the Heartland Part 1: Bodies Are the Key to the Case Part 1: Enrique on Top Part 1: Heroin Like Hamburgers Part 1: Tar Pit Part 2: Two-Thousand-Year-Old Questions Part 2: Collision: Ground Zero Part 2: Canaries in Coal Mines Part 2: Fifty, Hundred Cases a Month Part 2: Junkie Kingdom in Dreamland Part 2: A Criminal Case Part 2: “Took Over the OxyContin Belt” Part 2: The Final Convenience Part 2: A Tidal Wave Forming Part 2: Pentecostal Piety, Fierce Scratches Part 2: “We Was Carrying the Epidemic” Part 2: More Cases Than Car Crashes Part 2: A Pro Wrestler’s Legacy Part 2: Great Time to Be a Heroin Dealer Part 2: The Criminal Case  Part 3: “Now It’s Your Neighbor’s Kid”: Nashville, Tennessee Part 3: Like Cigarette Executives: Portland, Oregon Part 3: No Scarface, No Kingpins Part 3: A Parent’s Soul Pain Part 4: America Part 4: The Treatment Is You Part 4: The Internet of Dope Part 4: Nobody Can Do It Alone Part 5: Up from the Rubble Afterword
Themes
All Themes Pain Management and the Normalization of Narcotics The Drug Business Stigma, Shame, and the Opiate Epidemic Community as a Remedy to Addiction
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Characters
All Characters Sam Quinones Dr. David Procter Enrique Arthur Sackler Xalisco Boys Dr. Russell Portenoy Dr. Kathleen Foley Dr. Phillip Prior Matt Schoonover Myles Schoonover Dr. Herschel Jick Herrera Clan Alan Levine Toviy Sinyayev
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Dreamland

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Sam Quinones

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Dreamland

Dreamland was Portsmouth, Ohio’s local swimming pool from 1929 until its demolition in 1993. To the community of Portsmouth, memories of Dreamland represent happier, more prosperous, and more community-oriented times, an ideal that Quinones deems…

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Levi’s 501s

Levi’s 501 jeans were a status symbol for the Xalisco Boys heroin dealers of the 1990s, and the ability for the dealers to acquire these high-quality pants represents the broader profit-driven drug market that propelled…

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