Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America /
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question--why her only son died--and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and n...
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New York, NY :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2018]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- 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.