Format:
Book
Author:
Macy, Beth, author.
Title:
Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Description:
vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, 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. In some of the communities, 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.
Subjects:
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Medication abuse -- United States.
Oxycodone.
Oxycodone abuse -- United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-363) and index.
LCCN:
2017961068
ISBN:
9780316551243 (hardcover)
0316551244 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1043454094
System Availability:
72
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3622818
Call Number:
362.290973
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
68