TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macy,Beth
TI  - Dopesick: dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America 
SN  - 9781788549370 (hbk.) :
AV  - HV5825 
U1  - 362.293 MAC 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Head of Zeus
KW  - Macy, Beth
KW  - Purdue Pharma LP
KW  - Opioid abuse
KW  - United States
KW  - Oxycodone abuse
KW  - Analgesics industry
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - eflch
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In this work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicentre of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it's a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. At the heart of the story is a large corporation, Purdue - whose owners are celebrated for their sponsorship of art galleries and museums - that targeted areas of the country already awash in painkillers and encouraged small town doctors to prescribe OxyContin, a highly addictive drug. Evidence of its capacity to enslave its users was suppressed. Macy tries to answer a grieving mother's question - why her only son died - and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need
ER  -