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Macy, Beth,.
Dopesick :
dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America /
Beth Macy.
Dope sick.
First edition.
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2018.
vi, 376 pages, [8] pages of plates :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
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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.
20181003.
Opioid abuse
United States.
Medication abuse
United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse
United States.