Author Reading

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Wednesday, Nov. 11
5:30 p.m.
Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City

In a special event sponsored by the University of Iowa’s Injury Prevention Research Center, Sam Quinones will read from Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic.

The book chronicles how, over the past 15 years, communities all over the United States where heroin had never been seen before, found themselves overrun with it. Who was bringing it here, and why were so many people suddenly eager for the comparatively cheap high it offered?

Sam Quinones is a journalist and author whose two acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration True Tales from Another Mexico and Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream have made him, according to the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, the most original writer on Mexico and the border.

For more information, visit http://www.prairielights.com/live/sam-quinones

Conference

Heroin and Opioids: A Community Crisis

Thursday, Nov. 12
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
College of Public Health Building
University of Iowa

Please note: There is a waiting list to attend this conference.

This conference will bring together law enforcement, public health and health care professionals, and educators to exchange information and strategies to address the heroin and prescription opioid abuse and overdose epidemic plaguing eastern Iowa. Speakers will provide a national overview of the heroin problem and address issues specific to Iowa.

Topics include:

• The National Heroin Threat
• Opioid-Based Deaths in Iowa
• Heroin in Iowa – Urban and Rural Communities
• Heroin: Then and Now
• Responding to Heroin and Other Opioid Addictions
• Heroin Prevention Education in Schools and Iowa Communities

 For more information, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia

Sponsored by the United States Attorneys’ Offices for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, and the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center and College of Public Health