Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

88 reviews

abigail_lo's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

the only reason it took me so long to read this book is how goddamn infuriating it is. multiple times, i had to close the book before i became overpowered by sheer rage at the fucking nerve of the sacklers + everyone else they bought off. in terms of my takeaways: immense wealth and nepotism will be the literal death of our society. when corporations are allowed to buy their way through all the regulations in place in what amounts to a caricature of free-market capitalism, real people will always suffer. like he says in the afterword: while pain management is a very complex question and opioids are helpful to many people, my heart aches for those who lost their lives due to big pharma's (and specifically purdue's) lust for money. fuck capitalism -- eat the rich <3

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Chronic illness

vgillet's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.5

An absolutely devastating account of the boundless greed that led to the American opioid epidemic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Suicide

linneak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gaslighting, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Addiction

Moderate: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Stalking, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Grief, Antisemitism, and Cursing

dizzymisslizzy's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Antisemitism

lethaltea's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Minor: Suicide

sarahen's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide

abby_can_read's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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This was an intense read. It was horrifying, riveting and sickening. This was amazing reporting and storytelling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide and Death

Minor: Antisemitism

taytastic's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

I read this book after Say Nothing and if I could have swapped the order on those two books I would have. This book is completely unrelated, but much like Say Nothing has no real resolution. Fantastically researched and meticulous as always. It’s hard not to get really upset while reading this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide

lumbra's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Medical content, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Antisemitism

quantumponies's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide