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Author Macy, Beth, author.

Title Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  362.29 MACY    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  362.29 MACY    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  362.29 MAC    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  362.2909 MACY    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  362.2909 MACY    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  362.2909 MACY, BETH    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  362.29 MAC    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  362.29 MACY    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  362.29 MAC    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  362.2909 MAC    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-363) and index.
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." Whack-a-mole -- Liminality -- Hope on a spreadsheet -- "Brother, wrong or right" -- Outcasts and inroads -- Epilogue: Soldier's Disease.
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.
Subject Opioid abuse -- United States.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
Medication abuse. (OCoLC)fst01432065
Opioid abuse. (OCoLC)fst01430929
Oxycodone. (OCoLC)fst01049613
Oxycodone abuse. (OCoLC)fst01739447
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Added Title Dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America
Dope sick
ISBN 9780316551243 (hardcover)
0316551244 (hardcover)
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