Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Dopesick

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By
Beth Macy
Beth Macy(Author and Narrator)
2018

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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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