02462cam a2200373 i 4500 393288370 TxAuBib 20190930120000.0 180611s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017961068 9780316551243 0316551244 (OCoLC)1043454094 TxAuBib rda Macy, Beth. Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy. Dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America. Dope sick. First edition. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The People v. Purdue. The United States of Amnesia -- Swag 'n' Dash -- Message board memorial -- "The corporation feels no pain" -- Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Suburban sprawl -- "Like shooting Jesus" -- FUBI -- "Shit don't stop" -- "A broken system". Whack-a-mole -- Liminality -- Hope on a spreadsheet -- "Brother, wrong or right" -- Outcasts and inroads -- Epilogue: Soldier's Disease. Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. The unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. 20190930. cat 20180925 shs. Opioid abuse United States. Medication abuse United States. Oxycodone. Oxycodone abuse United States.