Origins of a crisis -- Ancient times to modern medicine -- Science of pain and pain medicine -- The Sackler Brothers -- Purdue Pharma -- The disease of addiction -- PROP -- Understanding addiction -- Medically assisted treatment (MAT) or abstinence? -- Public health campaigns and legal actions -- The beginning of the end? -- Changing the culture, ending the crisis.
Summary:
"Do No Harm: The Opioid Epidemic follows author and director, Harry Wiland as he works to unearth the history and truth behind America's rampant opioid crises, and investigates how this crisis ballooned into an epidemic fueled by Big Pharma's ploys, the medical community's obliviousness, and policymakers lack of oversight"-- Provided by publisher.
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