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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A raw and riveting, and often wryly funny, addiction memoir from one of New York media's most accomplished editors, Dan Peres. This memoir explores his never-before-told story of opioid addiction and the drastic impact it had on his life and career.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In September 2019, Purdue Pharma--the maker of OxyContin and a company controlled by the infamous billionaire Sackler family--filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from 2,600 lawsuits for its role in fueling the U.S. overdose crisis. Author and activist Ryan Hampton served as co-chair of the official creditors committee that acted as a watchdog during the process, one of only four victims appointed among representatives of big insurance companies,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Tens of millions of people around the world live with chronic pain - many in such severe pain they are disabled by it. The Institute of Medicine estimates that chronic pain costs the U.S. alone $560 to $635 billion a year in direct medical costs and lost productivity. Morphine, an effective painkiller, costs only three cents a dose, yet because of excessive regulation in many countries, it is unavailable to millions of people who need it, even at...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. Since incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis...
46) Lost river
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A blistering crime novel of the opioid epidemic--and its cops, villains, and victims--written by a twenty-five-year veteran of the DEA"--
47) Opioids
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For many young people, the opioid epidemic is mired in confusion: they hear about pain pills and other opioids from such a dizzying array of sources that they struggle to untangle fact from fiction. This engaging and accessible guide begins by demystify drugs and explaining the essentials about opioids and addiction. The text then builds on this foundation by teaching readers the dangers of opioids and how to get help if a loved one is addicted....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Over-prescription of painkillers has led to opioid addiction among people in all segments of American society. This in turn has increased addiction to other opioids, such as heroin and fentanyl. The Opioid Crisis examines why opioid abuse has become one of the most urgent public health issues of our time
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, a Congresswoman and her son reveal how he survived a ten-year battle with opioid abuse--and what their family's journey to recovery can teach us about finding hope amidst the unspeakable. When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son, Harry, was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from taking the biggest risk of her life: running for statewide office in Pennsylvania. For years, she had thought...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Author Harry Nelson has been on the front lines of behavioral health and medical advocacy for 2 decades. He is the leading healthcare legal expert in the country addressing the worsening problems in how we treat pain and addiction. His insights have earned the attention of lead policymakers and regulators at every federal agency touching the opioid crisis. He has been one of the few voices in the room with direct experience of where we are going wrong....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
"The...true story of a team of doctors who--through years of scientific sleuthing and observant care--discover a surprising connection between opioids and memory, one that holds promise and peril for any one of us."--
How could you lose your memory overnight, and what would it mean? When neurologist Jed Barash sees the brain scan of a patient with devastating amnesia, it is the beginning of a quest. His team of doctors explored the threat that people...
Pub. Date
©2015.
Edition
Director's cut.
Language
English
Description
"An American Epidemic" grew out of a New Jersey project exposing the opioid and heroin epidemic and has now traversed to 40 states across the country. In every state we visited, in every country, city, township, borough, the story was the same: tragedy to so many families, so many communities. Young lives lost to heroin. Beautiful people lost to a prescription drug overdose. Prescription drug overdose deaths in the United States have tripled since...
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