Pain killer : an empire of deceit and the origin of America's opioid epidemic / Barry Meier.
Publisher's description: Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early...
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| Other title: | Painkiller : an empire of deceit and the origin of America's opioid epidemic. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2018]
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| Edition: | [Expanded and updated edition]. |
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Table of Contents:
- Book of the Dead
- Pill hill
- The war against pain
- Secrets of Dendur
- A pot of gold
- Senior night
- Hot Spots
- Kiddie dope
- Purple peelers
- The body Count
- A reckoning
- Empire of deceit
- The war against pain revisited.