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Macy, Beth.
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Opioid abuse -- United States.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
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Macy, Beth.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
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Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy.
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Macy, Beth.
Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Call #:
LP
362
.290973
M177d
Subjects
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
ISBN:
9780316523172 (large print hc.)
Alternate title:
Dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America
Dope sick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
vi, 548 p. (large print) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-548).
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
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