Borrow a laptop? Only Windows will work??
Why can't you use the webcam in your cell phone?
I read over this whole thread with nothing but horror and disgust.

Jon -- I will look up "Dreamland"
And I would recommend "The Ibis Trilogy" -- for a little more historical perspective on how we got where we are. It is the story of the the development of British opium plantations in India, and the forcing of Chinese to accept opium in trade for silk and porcelain -- and the involvement of Yankee traders (like Johnny Delano, ancestor of FDR) -- culminating in two "opium wars" and resulting in cession of Hong Kong and much else to the British. Very complex story.

And then there is "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade"
by Paul McCoy, professor of history at Univ. of Wisconsin.

Going on beyond our medical bubble, we might get the idea that we physicians are just pawns in a multi-generational, multi-national, unbelievably malevolent criminal scheme.

And then there is Arthur Sackler, MD-- who when I was a young physician wrote inspirational columns in the "Medical Tribune" (which he owned) about medical professionalism and morality, and with his brother, also a physician, built their OTC drug company Purdue-Fredrick into a pharmaceutical powerhouse which eventually (long after his death) went on to catapult Oxycontin to unbelievable profitability through very nefarious marketing schemes -- and the modern day Opium War started (or became resurgent.)

Tom Duncan
Family Practice
Astoria OR