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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use
I was "assigned"'the book for work and while I didn't go into it thinking I would enjoy it, I did. The complicated story of the impact of big pharma on the opioid epidemic is started here ...
A memorable portrait of the opioid crisis. I appreciate the breadth of the project and the author's ability to illuminate the personalities behind an, oftentimes, featureless phenomenon.
First half really enjoyed, but got repetitive and bogged down towards the end. Glad I read it, but also glad I'm done.
A fascinating narrative of the rise of pill mills and opiate abuse in rural/white America, but could have used a great deal more editing-very repetitive.
I highly recommend this book. The detail of how abuse of prescription pharmaceuticals and the Mexican black tar heroin combined to create an epidemic is fascinating. Ultimately it is a marketing and distribution story -and not the one I expected.
This was helpful for me as I try to understand more about what drives the belief system in parts of our country.
This was helpful for me as I try to understand more about what drives the belief system in parts of our country.
Ver written and painful read about the opioid epidemic that has ravaged the US.
dark
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Best book I've read as an understanding of heroin opioid epidemic in the last 10 years. Following the trail of origins from poppy seed to streets of Columbus from sackler to pill factories. How interest convergence is the only way to reforms.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced