Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America / Beth Macy.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316551243
- 0316551244
- Dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America
- Dope sick
- 362.290973 23
- RC568 .O45 M33 2018
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Includes bibliographical references(pages 313-363) and index.
Part one: The People v. Purdue. The United States of Amnesia -- Swag 'n' Dash -- Message board memorial -- "The corporation feels no pain." Part two: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Suburban sprawl -- "Like shooting Jesus" -- FUBI -- "Shit don't stop." Part three: "A broken system." Whac-a-mole -- Liminality -- Hope on a spreadsheet -- "Brother, wrong or right" -- Outcasts and inroads. Epilogue: Soldier's Disease.
Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
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