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Pain killer : an empire of deceit and the origin of America's opioid epidemic / Barry Meier.
Van Pelt Library HV5822.O99 M45 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meier, Barry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oxycodone--United States.
- Oxycodone.
- Medication abuse--United States.
- Medication abuse.
- Oxycodone abuse.
- United States.
- Oxycodone abuse--United States.
- Opioid-Related Disorders--epidemiology.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Oxycodone--history.
- Opioid-Related Disorders--history.
- Drug Overdose--epidemiology.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- Opioid-Related Disorders--History.
- Opioid-Related Disorders--Epidemiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Opioid-Related Disorders--epidemiology.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Oxycodone--history.
- Opioid-Related Disorders--history.
- Drug Overdose--epidemiology.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Opioid-Related Disorders--History.
- Oxycodone abuse--United States.
- Medication abuse--United States.
- Opioid-Related Disorders--Epidemiology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that teenagers and others were abusing its billion dollar "wonder" drug. But Justice Department officials balked a decade ago when it came to meting out justice, allowing an opioid crisis to evolve into a catastrophe. Originally published in 2003 and hailed since as groundbreaking, Meier--in this thoroughly updated edition--reveals new and shocking information about how long the drug maker knew about OxyContin's abuse, even as it marketed it aggressively, and the way government officials passed up opportunities to protect hundreds of thousands of lives. Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story, and business expos, ̌ Pain Killer is the origin story of the opioid crisis, a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the gateway drug to a national tragedy"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Book of the Dead
- Pill hill
- The war against pain
- Secrets of dendur
- A pot of gold
- Senior night
- Hot Spots
- Kiddie dope
- Purple peelers
- The body Count
- A reckoning
- Empire of deceit
- The war against pain revisited.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780525511106
- 0525511105
- OCLC:
- 1028034890
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