An edition of Dopesick (2018)
Dopesick
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
By Beth Macy
Publish Date
2019
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Language
eng
Pages
400
Description:
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.
subjects: Opioid abuse, Medication abuse, Oxycodone, Oxycodone abuse, Drug abuse, Pharmaceutical industry, Opioids, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2018-08-26, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Opioid-Related Disorders, Epidemiology, Opioid Analgesics, Medical Overuse, Inappropriate Prescribing, Heroin Dependence, Drug Industry, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Industries, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, PSYCHOLOGY, Psychopathology, Addiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Sociology, Rural, Analgetikum, Drogenmissbrauch, Opioide, Large type books, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2019-09-08
Places: United States