Pain Killer: A "Wonder" Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death by Barry Meier

Pain Killer: A "Wonder" Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death

Barry Meier

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction health history informative fast-paced

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Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, busines...

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