Dopesick

• Author : Beth Macy
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 April 2021

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

• Author : Black Book
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• Release : 06 December 2018

Overall Summary of Dope Sick Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy is a journalistic, nonfiction work on the heroin epidemic that overtook Virginia in the 2000s through today. Through hours of research and scores of interviews, Macy explains the history of the epidemic from the time OxyContin arrived on the scene until it became the worst drug epidemic in modern American history. The novel works to advocate for better addiction treatment, as well

• Author : Milkyway Media
• Publisher : Milkyway Media
• Release : 18 September 2018

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America (2018) details the explosion of OxyContin use in Appalachia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the widespread heroin addiction that ensued when medical providers began restricting access to prescription opioids in the late 2000s and 2010s. Journalist and author Beth Macy, who once worked as a reporter in Roanoke, Virginia, traces the efforts of local activists, doctors, law enforcement officials, and parents to combat opioid dependence... Purchase this in-depth summary to

• Author : Sicily
• Publisher : Street Knowledge Publishing
• Release : 01 June 2006

• Author : Ryan Homanics
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release : 29 January 2018

" ... attempts to explore the heroin epidemic in this country in a way not previously attempted."--Back cover

• Author : Paul Adams /. Bookhabits
• Publisher : Blurb
• Release : 08 September 2018

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy: Conversation Starters Dopesick by Beth Macy takes a look at the central point of the opioid crisis in the United States. Opioid addiction has been a struggle for Americans for over twenty years. Macy takes the reader through the history of the opioid addiction crisis. She tells the stories of Americans whose lives have been greatly affected by prescription painkillers. These people range from high school football

• Author : Philippe Bourgois,Jeffrey Schonberg
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 29 May 2009

This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detailed field notes, and critical theoretical analysis. Its gripping narrative

• Author : Walter Dean Myers
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 06 October 2009

The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make some quick cash. It's supposed to be an easy deal, but it isn't so simple when the buyer is an undercover cop. With a gunshot wound to the arm, Rico in jail, and a police officer clinging to

• Author : J. A. Kazimer
• Publisher : CreateSpace
• Release : 27 November 2013

Once a famous rock star, Colin Wilde, nearly dies on a dirty bathroom floor, a lethal does of heroin in his veins, and his murdered wife's name on his lips. Now, three years later, clean and ready for a comeback, Colin meets a strung-out dancer who helps him navigate the seedy world of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 April 2021

• Author : Grace Xueqin Ma,George Henderson
• Publisher : Charles C Thomas Pub Limited
• Release : 13 April 2021

Although this book focuses most of its attention on ethnic minority substance abusers, considerable mention is made of their White peers, too. Thus, the authors offer cultural points and counterpoints - all of them given to achieve three objectives: (1) to make care providers aware of cultural factors that affect substance abuse and cessation; (2) to review multidisciplinary research studies in order to ascertain helpful and unhelpful health care practices; and (3) to provide practical suggestions for improving community-wide substance prevention and intervention

• Author : Charlotte Bismuth
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 19 January 2021

“Charlotte Bismuth gives us a bold and cinematic true crime story about her work at the intersection of medicine and greed. Bad Medicine is a gripping memoir that toggles deftly between the personal and prosecutorial.” —Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick “Bismuth has written a brilliant account of prosecuting a doctor who became a drug dealer in a white coat. She is haunted by the voices of the dead and listening closely to the voices of the

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 April 1991

• Author : Casey L. B. Kwang,Jack Nidever
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 March 1997

• Author : Reyes Ramos
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 April 1998