Description: American Overdose : The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts, Paperback by Mcgreal, Chris, ISBN 1541742753, ISBN-13 9781541742758, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic -- devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the worlds opioid painkillers.
Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
The starting point for McGreals deeply reported investigation is the miners promised that opioid painkillers would restore their wrecked bodies, but who became targets of "drug dealers in white coats."
A few heroic physicians warned of impending disaster. But American Overdose exposes the powerful forces they were up against, including the pharmaceutical industrys coopting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillers -- resulting in the resurgence of heroin cartels in the American heartland. McGreal tells the story, in terms both broad and intimate, of people hit by a catastrophe they never saw coming. Years in the making, its ruinous consequences will stretch years into the future.
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Book Title: American Overdose : the Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Public Affairs
Topic: Pain Medicine, United States / 21st Century, Pharmacology, Disease & Health Issues, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Social Science, Psychology, Medical, History
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Chris Mcgreal
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
