Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 376, 9 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
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Southside - Adult
362.293 Mac
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362.293 Mac
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes Reading Group Guide.
General Note
"August 2019"--Title page verso
General Note
Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, August 2018.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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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