{"product_id":"2940170208081","title":"American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemicamp;mdash;devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJourneying 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few heroic physicians warned of impending disaster. But \u003ci\u003eAmerican Overdose\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the powerful forces they were up against, including the pharmaceutical industry's co opting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillersamp;mdash;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","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117135413488,"sku":"2940170208081","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170208081_p0.jpg?v=1763704997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170208081","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}