Dopesick
Subtitle: dealers, doctors, and the company that addicted America
By: Beth Macy
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780316551243
Subjects: Opioid abuse; Medication abuse; Oxycodone; Oxycodone abuse
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.
Table of contents: title: Part one: The People v. Purdue. The United States of Amnesia; title: Swag 'n' Dash; title: Message board memorial; title: "The corporation feels no pain." Part two: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Suburban sprawl; title: "Like shooting Jesus"; title: FUBI; title: "Shit don't stop." Part three: "A broken system." Whac-a-mole; title: Liminality; title: Hope on a spreadsheet; title: "Brother, wrong or right"; title: Outcasts and inroads. Epilogue: Soldier's Disease.