Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

107 reviews

madelonpaige's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

idun_aurora's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

The amount of work that has gone into this book is commendable. It's packed with information without ever getting trudgy, shedding light on not just the Sacklers and the opioid crisis, but many parts of the (ridiculous) American health care system and the marketing of prescription drugs.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Drug abuse, and Suicide

cghegan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Medical content

carpfish's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Mental illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Medical trauma and Medical content

libbyhb's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

After listening to Say Nothing, I immediately lucked out and got a skip-the-line copy of this from Libby! This was so well done, as expected. I liked following the journey through Arthur Sackler's life, and then through the development of Purdue Pharma and impact of OxyContin, and that Patrick Radden Keefe focused on the thread of the Sacklers' obsession with naming philanthropy and the later "un-naming". Obviously it was rage-enducing, but I feel like I learned so much. Can't wait to read more PRK!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Death

Minor: Antisemitism

internationalreads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Suicide

kristin_h_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Chronic illness, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, and Drug use

darkcornerofthelibrary's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Child death, Suicide, and Grief

michajela1's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Suicide

ticktock's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Antisemitism, Suicide, Addiction, Death, and Drug use