Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macy, Beth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Opioid abuse > United States.
Medication abuse > United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse > United States.
Drug abuse > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Medication abuse.
Opioid abuse.
Oxycodone abuse.
United States.
Popular Work.
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.

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