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This book provides an informed perspective on how American became a country of opiate addicts. Quinones explains how the perfect storm hit certain elements of rural and suburban America at the same time. What started out as a systematic campaign by a drug manufacturer which had falsely claimed that OxyCotin was not addictive (while at the same time making the case that pain was the 5th vital sign of health care) led to physicians oversubscribing the use of this medication. This result was also f
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Four stars because I learned a lot reading this book. (I thought the opioid crisis was just about prescription drug use. I had no idea there was this other, tar heroin thing going on. That’s how little I knew). But really, this book has some flaws that make it more of a three star read. It jumped all around from story to story in a trendy way, which irritates me a bit, but on top of that, it was very repetitive. I get it. OxyContin doesn’t include Tylenol so it doesn’t mess with your liver. The
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Sep 03, 2019
El
marked it as to-read
Feb 20, 2022
Susan
marked it as to-read
