Pain Killer
An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America S Opioid Epidemic
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2020
Summary
Every catastrophe has a beginning. For the opioid crisis in America, the seed was a drug called OxyContin. First hailed as a miracle drug for severe pain in the early 1990s, OxyContin went on to ignite a plague of addiction and death across America, fuelled by the aggressive marketing of its maker, Purdue Pharma and the billionaire Sackler brothers who owned the company. Investigative journalist Barry Meier was the first to write about the elusive Sackler family, their role in this catastroph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529356168 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529356164 |
| Author: | Barry Meier |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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Groundbreaking … Pain Killer is the shocking account of the origins of today’s opioid epidemic, the creators of this plague, and the way to help stop it – Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Fascinating * New York Times *
Prescient … a landmark work of investigative journalism – David A. Kessler, author of The End of Overeating
Powerful … [a] page-turning exposé * Salon *
About The Author
Barry Meier
Barry Meier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times investigative reporter. He’s twice won the George Polk award for Investigate Reporting. Prior to joining the New York Times in 1989, he worked for the Wall Street Journal and New York Newsday.
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