Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America /
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 n...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780316551243 0316551244 9780316523172 0316523178 |