Chris McGreal
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 316 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the U.S. into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but...