Need to be ready for anything. Comcast, along with these television companies, supports cspan2 as a public service. Host sam quinones is journalism and author. 15 book dreamland the true story of americas opiate epidemic joined us today as we return to the topic of opioid addiction in america but before we get to the book i want to ask about something you wrote on your blog recently pick you said writing about heroin these days is really another way friday about america, we are and what weve become. Can you explain that . Guest sure. I began come this begin to coding as i began to write. It was in the middle of this project. I began to wonder why it was that this problem usually affecting appalachia, but then but then also white was affecting charlotte and salt lake and indianapolis and places that did very well over the last 20, 30 years, not rust belt areas. What was the common denominator . Began to understand that the common denominator was her own isolation and that youre really w