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Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic,New
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A Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times reporter exposes the roots of the opioid epidemic at the hands of Purdue Pharma and Raymond and Mortimer Sackler in Pain Killer, a timely, compelling, important (The Seattle Times) story of corporate greed and government negligence.Groundbreaking . . . Pain Killer is the shocking account of the origins of todays opioid epidemic, the creators of this plague, and the way to help stop it.Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of Americas Opiate EpidemicBetween 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharmas aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink. Meanwhile, the drugmakers owners, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, whose names adorn museums worldwide, made enormous fortunes from the commercial success of OxyContin.In Pain Killer, Barry Meier tells the story of how Purdue turned OxyContin into a billiondollar blockbuster. Powerful narcotic painkillers, or opioids, were once used as drugs of last resort for pain sufferers. But Purdue launched an unprecedented marketing campaign claiming that the drugs longacting formulation made it safer to use than traditional painkillers for many types of pain. That illusion was quickly shattered as drug abusers learned that crushing an Oxy could release its narcotic payload all at once. Even in its prescribed form, Oxy proved fiercely addictive. As OxyContins use and abuse grew, Purdue concealed what it knew from regulators, doctors, and patients.Here are the people who profited from the crisis and those who paid the price, those who plotted in boardrooms and those who tried to sound alarm bells. A country doctor in rural Virginia, Art Van Zee, took on Purdue and warned officials about OxyContin abuse. An ebullient high school cheerleader, Lindsey Myers, was reduced to stealing from her parents to feed her escalating Oxy habit. A hardcharging DEA official, Laura Nagel, tried to hold Purdue executives to account.In this updated edition of Pain Killer, Barry Meier breaks new ground in his decadeslong investigation into the opioid epidemic. He takes readers inside Purdue to show how long the company withheld information about the abuse of OxyContin and gives a shocking account of the Justice Departments failure to alter the trajectory of the opioid epidemic and protect thousands of lives. Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story, and business expos, Pain Killer is a hardhitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the gateway drug to a national tragedy.
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