Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America /
Macy, Beth,
Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America / Dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America. Dope sick. Beth Macy. - First edition. - vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
9780316551243 0316551244
2017961068
Opioid abuse.
Medication abuse.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse.
RC568 .O45 / M33 2018
362.290973
Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America / Dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America. Dope sick. Beth Macy. - First edition. - vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
9780316551243 0316551244
2017961068
Opioid abuse.
Medication abuse.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse.
RC568 .O45 / M33 2018
362.290973