Bibliograph

Dopesick, dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America, Beth Macy

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Dopesick, dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America, Beth Macy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dopesick

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1046613672

Responsibility statement

Beth Macy

Sub title

dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America

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, 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

Table Of Contents

The United States of Amnesia -- Swag 'n' Dash -- Message board memorial -- "The corporation feels no pain" -- Suburban sprawl -- "Like shooting Jesus" -- FUBI -- "Shit don't stop" -- Whack-a-mole -- Liminality -- Hope on a spreadsheet -- "Brother, wrong or right" -- Outcasts and inroads -- Epilogue: Soldier's Disease

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Dope sick

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