Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
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Journalist Beth Macy traces America's opioid epidemic from big pharma boardrooms and marketing campaigns to doctor's offices, Appalachian towns, suburbs, and farm communities. Beginning with a dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and turns high-school football stars into overdose statistics, she follows the path from OxyContin's 1996 arrival through a culture of overtreatment with painkillers, and into the living rooms of families and first responders fighting the crisis. Dopesick is a story of greed and need that shows how opioid abuse cut across class and geography.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780316551304
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