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Macy, Beth, author.
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Opioid abuse -- United States.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
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Dopesick [large type...
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Dopesick [large type] : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy.
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Macy, Beth, author.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Subjects
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
ISBN:
9780316523172 (large print ; hardcover)
0316523178 (large print ; hardcover)
Description:
vi, 548 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
Large print edition.
First edition.
Contents:
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.
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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.
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Library For The Blind and Print Disabled
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LT 362.293 Ma
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