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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By Macy, Beth
- ISBN
- 9780316551243 9780316551281
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 2018 | Drugs and Dependence
"Americans, representing 5 percent of the world's population, consume 80 percent of its opioids." Macy (Factory Man; Truevine) brings that statistic down to the personal level as she relates individual stories of OxyContin use in the United States, while also tracing its regulatory history and legal, medical, and social ramifications. The intertwined factors that have led to today's opioid epidemic play out in stories of health-care providers, patients,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
