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'Essential reading' New York Times
Beth Macy reveals the disturbing truth behind America's opioid crisis and explains how a nation has become enslaved to prescription drugs.
This powerful and moving story explains how a large corporation, Purdue, encouraged small town doctors to prescribe OxyContin to a country already awash in painkillers. The drug's dangerously addictive nature was hidden, whilst many used it as an escape, to numb the pain of of joblessness and the need to pay the bills. Macy tries to answer a grieving mother's question - why her only son died - and comes away with a harrowing tale of greed and need.
| ISBN: | 9781803284279 |
| Publication date: | 11th November 2021 |
| Author: | Beth Macy |
| Publisher: | Apollo an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Drugs and alcohol: social aspects News media and journalism Regulation of medicines and medical devices Reportage, journalism or collected columns Public health and preventive medicine Popular medicine and health Society and culture: general |