Poverty: Homelessness, Opioid Epidemic And Effect On Health

Poverty: Homelessness, Opioid Epidemic and Effect on Health

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Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Dreamland: The true Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic is a book, more like a masterpiece that has highlighted how opiate epidemic is a root cause of several other social and healthcare dilemmas. The authors identified the manipulation and dark histories that have paved the way for opiate epidemic and how this paradigm is causing social and health devastations. The book is based on a journalistic investigation, taking into account the stance that has portrayed a complete mindset behind the addiction and how it is becoming the root cause of social conflict paving the way for poverty and homelessness. (Quinones, et, al. 2015). It would not be wrong to say that the book has unfolded how politics, research, poverty greed and manipulation of politics melded to create the platform of national opioid crisis. Dreamland has brought into insight the modern trend of opioid taking into account several parallel narrations such as the propagation and origin of opioid use, accompanied by pharmaceutical marketing.

Quinones have addressed the impact of opioid consumption on Americans, taking into account that there is no ground basis of the framework that infers usage of opioid. Moreover, it is highlighted that opioid is more like a leech that sucks body from the body of society. The book has paved the way for the justification of the fact that poverty is one of the major outcomes of drug consumption. (Quinones, et, al. 2015). The author highlighted that the addiction to opioid had brought homelessness to the society, youth and many addicts are using indirect ways to get opioid, and it is resulting in social deterioration where there is a great ratio of homeless people and social criminals.

It would not be wrong to say that the book is a complete guide to the facts and figures that are necessary to be considered in order to practice Americans Dream. It is significant to note that the author has highlighted that a progressing society is termed into a deficit society because poverty is the root cause of all the unfulfilled needs. Inadequate investment of politics and public has aroused the stance of “negligence and insufficiency" that is becoming a dilemma. Opioid consumption and poverty is an amalgamation of two “social monsters” that are crushing the baseline of a moral society. It has paved the way for certain health needs because of significant health issues, social crimes, and violence due to lack of resources. (Pacurucu-Castillo, et, al. 2019). The people are more like addict patients striving to quench the thirst of “satisfaction” by drug consumption using illegal ways. It is evident that the place where poverty prevails, there is a lack of life-sustaining resources such as food, home, and education. (Pacurucu-Castillo, et, al. 2019).Society is unable to fulfill these needs because the basis of society is held by youth and most of the youngsters are a victim to health issues and poverty.

The book is a collection of eye-opening facts and figures that guided my attention to the social dilemmas initiated at a political platform. It is a sight of exegetical analysis that helped to create an emotional connection to “poverty” because all other issues can be dealt with sufficient resources. The stance of fabrication that is now treated as a social dilemma is just a product of misinterpretation taking into account that opioid is manipulated, on one side is, “virtuous desire of relief" and on the other side is, "trappings of greed and vice." (Dasgupta, et, al. 2018). The historical account that opioid was not built on the resources of robust clinical is historical footnotes that are misinterpreted in the pharmaceutical industry-funded studies. The author could have portrayed issue in different insight by using public involvement such as interviews and data collection because that would be a more subjective account.

References

Dasgupta, N., Beletsky, L., & Ciccarone, D. (2018). Opioid crisis: no easy fix to its social and economic determinants. American journal of public health, 108(2), 182-186.

Pacurucu-Castillo, S. F., Ordóñez-Mancheno, J. M., Hernández-Cruz, A., & Alarcón, R. D. (2019). World Opioid and Substance Use Epidemic: A Latin American Perspective. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, appi-prcp.

Quinones, S. (2015). Dreamland: The true tale of America's opiate epidemic. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.