A Blizzard of Prescriptions
Emily Witt: The Pain Lobby, 4 April 2019
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
by Chris McGreal.
Faber, 316 pp., £12.99, November 2018,978 1 78335 168 8 Show More
by Chris McGreal.
Faber, 316 pp., £12.99, November 2018,
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones.
Bloomsbury, 400 pp., £12.99, June 2016,978 1 62040 252 8 Show More
by Sam Quinones.
Bloomsbury, 400 pp., £12.99, June 2016,
“... black tar heroin in the US and its effects on one particular town in Ohio. American Overdose, by Chris McGreal, a correspondent for the Guardian, offers a more detailed view of the corruption that enabled the spread of opiates to go unchecked by the healthcare industry, government or law enforcement. Each of these books devotes chapters to the history ... ”