{"product_id":"american-overdose-the-opioid-tragedy-in-three-acts-paperback","title":"American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris McGreal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions. Now updated with new details on Big Pharma lawsuits.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The opioid epidemic has been described as \"one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.\" But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers.\u003cbr\u003e Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.\u003cbr\u003e The starting point for McGreal's deeply reported investigation is the miners promised that opioid painkillers would restore their wrecked bodies, but who became targets of \"drug dealers in white coats.\"\u003cbr\u003e A few heroic physicians warned of impending disaster. But \u003cem\u003eAmerican Overdose\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the powerful forces they were up against, including the pharmaceutical industry's coopting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillers--resulting in the resurgence of heroin cartels in the American heartland. McGreal tells the story, in terms both broad and intimate, of people hit by a catastrophe they never saw coming. Years in the making, its ruinous consequences will stretch years into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris McGreal\u003c\/b\u003e is a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and former journalist at the BBC. He was the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e's correspondent in Johannesburg, Jerusalem and Washington DC, and now writes from across the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has won several awards including for his reporting of the genocide in Rwanda, coverage of Israel\/Palestine, and for writing on the impact of economic recession in modern America. He received the James Cameron prize for \"work as a journalist that has combined moral vision and professional integrity\". He was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for reporting that \"penetrated the established version of events and told an unpalatable truth\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He is a former merchant seaman.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47699981369603,"sku":"9781541742758","price":35.26,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/aTRVNGM3RHo2cFMwcFpSdHVLOWFOUT09.webp?v=1769928717","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-ca\/products\/american-overdose-the-opioid-tragedy-in-three-acts-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}