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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

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

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    Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
    Publication Date: 26/11/2020
    ISBN13: 9780316417679, 978-0316417679
    ISBN10: 031641767X
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    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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