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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
by Chris McGreal
"No one really knows how many have died from a drug overdose either caused by opioids or in combination with other drugs: the official count is 350,000 between 1999 and 2016."
350,000! 350,000! 350,000!
From the first page this book is a riveting account of the rise of the use and abuse of opioids from the pharmaceutical companies who mined the poorer segments of our country like West Virginia to the dubious fraudsters who built businesses shoveling prescriptions by the thousands. It is the story of the people who lost loved ones to overdoses and then the eventual comeback of heroin and fentanyl. This is a story of greed, corruption, intended and unintended consequences. Our families and communities have been laid waste.
350,000! 350,000! 350,000!
From the first page this book is a riveting account of the rise of the use and abuse of opioids from the pharmaceutical companies who mined the poorer segments of our country like West Virginia to the dubious fraudsters who built businesses shoveling prescriptions by the thousands. It is the story of the people who lost loved ones to overdoses and then the eventual comeback of heroin and fentanyl. This is a story of greed, corruption, intended and unintended consequences. Our families and communities have been laid waste.