For those interested in learning more about the erosion of the American heartland by the widespread use of prescription narcotics, particularly Oxycontin, I strongly recommend the book &quot;Dreamland,&quot; a nonfiction text weaving together the narratives of the opiode boom in American medicine and the spread of Xalisco black tar herion cells throughout American cities that had seldom seen heroin: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1620402505&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemi...</a><p>Very readable and educational. I couldn&#x27;t put it down, and it tied together a lot of disparate threads that I have noticed over the past two decades but which I was unable to connect myself.