From the author of the New York Times bestseller Factory Man, the untold story of America's opioid epidemic In the worst drug epidemic in American history, nothing is as it first appears. The most dangerous drug peddler isn't actually an ex-con draped in diamond bling. Pills prescribed for your grandfather end up in the bloodstream of the football player down the street. Government regulators sworn to protect public health and safety are duped by corporate sales chicanery. And scattershot efforts to crack down on the illicit use of one opiate drug results in the surge of another opiate that is far more potent. In DOPESICK, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Beth Macy unravels the opioid epidemic in a way that changes how Americans stock their medicine cabinets, revealing the role that pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment played in the growing crisis. Beginning in Virginia's far southwestern corner,...
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Factory Man, the untold story of America's opioid epidemicIn the worst drug epidemic in American history, nothing is as it first appears. The most dangerous drug peddler isn't actually an ex-con draped in diamond bling. Pills prescribed for your grandfather end up in the bloodstream of the football player down the street. Government regulators sworn to protect public health and safety are duped by corporate sales chicanery. And scattershot efforts to crack down on the illicit use of one opiate drug results in the surge of another opiate that is far more potent.
In DOPESICK, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Beth Macy unravels the opioid epidemic in a way that changes how Americans stock their medicine cabinets, revealing the role that pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment played in the growing crisis.
Beginning in Virginia's far southwestern corner,...