Redefining Huntington
In the afterward of his popular 2015 book “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” Sam Quinones ponders the decline of community as a predecessor to the drug epidemic in America. “We wound up dangerously separate from each other—whether in poverty or affluence,” he writes. “Kids no longer play in the street. Parks are underused. Dreamland lies buried beneath a strip mall. Why then do we wonder that heroin is everywhere? In our isolation, heroin thrives; that’s its natural habitat.