[Download PDF]->Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic Writen By Barry Meier

Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

By : Barry Meier

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Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink.In Pain Killer, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Barry Meier exposes the roots of the most pressing health epidemic of the twenty-first century. Powerful narcotic painkillers, or opioids, were once used as drugs of last resort for pain sufferers. Purdue turned OxyContin into a billion-dollar blockbuster by launching an unprecedented marketing campaign claiming that the drug's long-acting formulation made it safer to use than traditional painkillers for many types of pain. That illusion was quickly shattered as drug abusers learned that crushing an Oxy could release its narcotic payload all at once. Even in its prescribed form, Oxy proved fiercely addictive. As OxyContin's

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Author : Barry Meier

Pages : 240 pages

Publisher : Random House

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0525511105

ISBN-13 : 9780525511106

 
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