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.