Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

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

144 reviews

carpfish's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

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: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Death and Suicide

Minor: Antisemitism

orla_h's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Suicide, and Medical content

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, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

kristin_h_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

darkcornerofthelibrary's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Child death, Suicide, and Grief

rjohns5's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Suicide

ticktock's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

ejkend's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely 5 stars. This was more absorbing than any other non fiction book I’ve ever read. I couldn’t stop turning the pages, as if I was reading a thriller. Even knowing something about the opioid crisis my jaw still dropped multiple times. The scope and detail of the reporting is incredible, and the content so shocking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

kaitereads's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction