Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier
2 reviews
radmartigan's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Drug abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic
ashlightgrayson's review
dark
informative
medium-paced
5.0
I read this book as an adjunct after finishing Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. Despite this book originally being published in 2004, the updated edition helps it still feel very relevant. The information it provides about the opioid crisis and its connection to Purdue Pharma is still very important. It focuses on the way the DEA and American government was complicit in covering up the beginning of the opioid crisis. This of course contributed to the enormity of the crisis we have today. The book includes testimonies from families who lost their loved one to opioid addiction after taking Oxycontin and testimonies of former employees of Purdue Pharma. This book stand well as source of information about the crisis on its own, but I found it incredibly helpful to read alongside Empire of Pain which I also highly recommend.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Death, and Drug abuse
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