Dopesick : : Dealers, Doctors, and the Company That Addicted America
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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: vi, 548 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316523172
0316523178
SUBJECTS
Opioid abuse.
Medication abuse.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse.