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Addicts in recovery were injecting Portsmouth with what other American cities relied on Mexican immigrants to provide: energy, optimism, gratitude for an opportunity. 

This is one of the closing sentences from Dreamland, a book I’ve been quoting for a while and that I finally finished. Its author is a remarkable journalist of the kind I thought didn’t exist any more. He grabs a story like a pit bull and doesn’t let go until every aspect of it gets explored. 

It’s sensationally good, people. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It feels weird to say that I enjoyed reading a book about such horrible suffering but I did enjoy it because the writing is so good and there is hope in the very fact that these terrible crimes are being investigated and brought to light. 

P.S. Just read the book before you ever say “but if opiates don’t get prescribed what will people with chronic pain do?” ever again. You will discover that this sentence was manufactured by vile drug dealers and put into your head by them a very short time ago. An entire society was brainwashed by these monsters who ended up killing countless people to feed their greed.