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Author:

Macy, Beth.

Title:

Dopesick Dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America Beth Macy

Edition:

First Back Bay paperback edition

Publisher:

Back Bay BooksLittle, Brown and Company,

Copyright Date:

c 2019

Description:

vi, 376, 9 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Subject:

Opioid abuse--United States
Medication abuse--United States
Purdue Pharma--OxyContin
Oxycodone abuse--United States

Notes:

Reading group guide, 9 pages "August 2019"--Title page verso Includes Reading Group guide Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-363) and index

Contents:

Prologue -- 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:

Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question--why her only son died--and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. The unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus.

ISBN:

0316551309
9780316551304

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1078891631

LCCN:

2017961068

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