Mission of the CCMSA Opioid Misuse Prevention Health Initiative:
Thursday - May 4, 2017
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Q&A and Book Signing to Follow
Doors Open to Registered CCMSA Members at 5:30 PM
Doors Open to the Public at 5:45 PM
Appropriate for Guests Age 14+. We encourage you to bring your children to this very important talk!
The Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Has Gripped the U.S. and Nevada! Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles based freelance journalist. Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic recounts twin stories of drug marketing in the 21st century: A pharmaceutical corporation flogs its legal new opiate prescription painkiller as non-addictive. Meanwhile, immigrants from a small town in Nayarit, Mexico devise a method for retailing black-tar heroin like pizza in the US, and take that system nationwide, riding a wave of addiction to prescription pills from coast to coast. The collision of those two forces has led to America’s deadliest drug scourge in modern times.