Dopesick
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Published on 7. September 2018
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-0-316-52317-2 (ISBN)
Description
Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
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Edition
Large type / large print edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
Large type / large print edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
838 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-52317-2 (9780316523172)
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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.