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From a psychiatrist on the frontlines of addiction medicine and an expert on the history of drug use comes the authoritative, engaging, and accessible history of the flower that helped to build (Booklist) -- and now threatens -- modern society.

Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even as the overdose crisis ravages our nation -- straining our prison system, dividing families, and defying virtually every legislative solution to treat it -- few understand how it came to be.

Opium tells the fascinating (Lit Hub) and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today''s crisis, mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society (Laurence Ber

Opium

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    A Paperback / softback by David Blistein, John H. Halpern

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      Publisher Little, Brown & Company
      Published 26 November 2020
      ISBN-13 9780316417679
      978-0316417679
      ISBN-10 031641767X
      Also in:
      Addiction and therapy Psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From a psychiatrist on the frontlines of addiction medicine and an expert on the history of drug use comes the authoritative, engaging, and accessible history of the flower that helped to build (Booklist) -- and now threatens -- modern society.

      Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even as the overdose crisis ravages our nation -- straining our prison system, dividing families, and defying virtually every legislative solution to treat it -- few understand how it came to be.

      Opium tells the fascinating (Lit Hub) and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today''s crisis, mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society (Laurence Ber

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