Dreamland: America’s Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesQuinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible. Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True […]