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Opiate epidemic fades from campaign trail as death toll rises

The lack of presidential discourse around addiction to pain-relieving drugs is especially striking here in Ohio


Tuesday, November 1, 2016

by CBS News

Sam Quinones spent five years writing the book on how heroin took hold in America. It was a lonely endeavor for him, as he dug through pockets of Ohio that had been quietly ravaged by the opiate epidemic. Still, parents and politicians were reluctant to talk, and the media had taken little interest in the subject.

So when “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” was finally published in April of 2015, Quinones assumed the book would collect dust on a bookstore shelf, unmemorable and largely forgotten.  

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