Title Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop / Anna Lembke, MD.

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]

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Description	xi, 172 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index.
Contents	What is addiction, who's at risk, and how do people recover? -- Prescription drugs as the new gateway to addiction -- Pain is dangerous, difference is psychopathology : the role of illness narratives -- Big Pharma joins Big Medicine : co-opting medical science to promote pill-taking -- The drug-seeking patient : malingering versus the hijacked brain -- The professional patient : illness as identity and a right t be compensated -- The compassionate doctor, the narcissistic injury, and the primitive defense -- Pill mills and the Toyota-ization of medicine -- Addiction, the disease insurance companies still won't pay doctors to treat -- Stopping the cycle of compulsive prescribing.
Subject	Analgesics.
	Medication abuse.
	Physician and patient.
	Drugs -- Prescribing.
	Drug addiction.
	Analgesics. (OCoLC)fst00808271
	Drug addiction. (OCoLC)fst01430217
	Drugs -- Prescribing. (OCoLC)fst00898867
	Medication abuse. (OCoLC)fst01432065
	Physician and patient. (OCoLC)fst01062819
	Analgesics.
	Prescription Drug Misuse.
	Physician-Patient Relations.
	Inappropriate Prescribing.
ISBN	9781421421407 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	1421421402 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9781421421414 (electronic)
	1421421410 (electronic)

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