9780316551304-0316551309-Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

ISBN-13: 9780316551304
ISBN-10: 0316551309
Edition: Reprint
Author: Beth Macy
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780316551304
ISBN-10: 0316551309
Edition: Reprint
Author: Beth Macy
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback 400 pages

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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (ISBN-13: 9780316551304 and ISBN-10: 0316551309), written by authors Beth Macy, was published by Back Bay Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology (Industries, Drug Dependency, Addiction & Recovery, Substance Abuse, Law Specialties, Medicine, Sociology, Rural, Class) books. You can easily purchase or rent Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.45.

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An instant New York Times bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to tell the full story of the opioid crisis, from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans struggling to save themselves and their families: "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" from a journalist who has lived through it (New York Times).

In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor's offices; wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns; the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.

Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy sets out to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a gripping, unputdownable story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy investigates the powerful forces that led America's doctors and patients to embrace a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, 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, compelling, andunforgettably humane portraits of families and first responders determined toameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In thesepolitically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows that one thing uniting Americans across geographic, partisan, and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But even in the midst of twin crises in drug abuse and healthcare, Macy finds reason to hope and ample signs of the spirit and tenacity that are helping the countless ordinary people ensnared by addiction build a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities.

"An impressive feat of journalism, monumental in scope and urgent in its implications."-Jennifer Latson, The Boston Globe
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