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“The painkiller known as methadone was synthesized by German scientists in the effort to make Nazi Germany medicinally self-reliant as it prepared for war. The Allies took the patent after the war, and Eli Lilly Company introduced the drug in the United States in 1947. U.S. doctors identified it as a potential aide to heroin addicts.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“lip. I have a sudden vivid picture of the earth as flat, a tray, covered in marbles, and someone is tilting it, and the marbles are rolling, cascading, from east to west.”
― Ben H. Winters, Countdown City

“I was enraptured by the brain and how it could misfire, but it wasn’t just the hardware that intrigued me, it was the software with the bugs.”
― Julie Holland, Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

“Worldwide morphine consumption began to climb, rising thirtyfold between 1980 and 2011.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic