Category Archives: Opiods

HBO’s Alex Gibney Doco Crime of the Century (8-5-21)

The Opium Wars: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=70956 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-crime-of-the-century-tv-review-2021 What would America have been like without slavery? https://www.takimag.com/article/alternative-america/ Peter Zeihan on the geo-politics of Latin America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrNWPltr6g Covid deaths in 2021: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covid19-cases-and-deaths-number-us-americans/ COVID-19 continues to be a leading cause of death in the U.S. … Continue reading

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Opioid Nation

Dr. Marcia Angell writes: The problem with these three books, and it’s a big one, is that they treat the Purdue story as though it were the whole story of the opioid epidemic. But OxyContin did not give rise to … Continue reading

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Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones wrote in this 2015 book: * Yet Mexican drug traffickers avoided the town, police told me. This made Huntington rare. Mexican traffickers operated all over America—in Tennessee and Idaho and Alaska. But not in West Virginia. West Virginia … Continue reading

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