Dopesick - Dealers, Doctors and the drug Company that Addicted America

Zusatztext 'An unflinching look at the opioid crisis in the US ... Truly shocking in some places, Dopesick is a wake-up call for doctors and the pharmaceutical industry' British Journal of General Practice . Informationen zum Autor Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man . Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. An unforgettable portrait of the devastating opioid crisis in America from a New York Times bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it. Zusammenfassung A portrait of the devastating opioid crisis in America from a New York Times bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it.

Report

A shocking investigation... [Dopesick] is essential. The urgency of its message is compounded by the fact that as I write this, the latest figures show the number of deaths in England and Wales due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose by 29 per cent in 2017' The Times

Product details

• Authors: Beth Macy, Macy Beth
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2018
• EAN: 9781788549868
• ISBN: 978-1-78854-986-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Non Fiction