01961cam a2200325 i 4500 574186064 TxAuBib 20220706120000.0 181212|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316551304 paperback 17.99 0316551309 paperback 17.99 (OCoLC)1078891631 TxAuBib rda Macy, Beth,. Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy. First Back Bay paperback edition. New York, New York : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2019. ©0. xii, 376, 9 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us to the epicenter of America's decades-long struggle with opioid addiction. From the creation and distribution of the deadliest, most lucrative painkillers the world has ever known to the courtrooms where greed and corruption are starting to be held to account, from the addicts on the perilous road to recovery to the communities grappling with loss and stigma, this gripping narrative illuminates the complicated heart of a national crisis as persistent as it is entrenched. Through unsparing yet deeply human stories of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic in politically fragmented times, Macy shows that, astonishingly, the one thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse."--Page 4 of cover. 20220706. Opioid abuse United States. Medication abuse United States. Oxycodone. Oxycodone abuse United States.