Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316551243
- ISBN: 0316551244
- Physical Description: vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-363) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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, etc.: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Opioid abuse > United States. Medication abuse > United States. Oxycodone. Oxycodone abuse > United States. |
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Author Notes
Dopesick : Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Beth Macy is a journalist. Her work has appeared in national magazines and The Roanoke Times, where her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. Her first book, Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town, was published in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography)