Books: American Overdose. The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

摘要

This book describes health and social devastation caused in the US by the rapid growth of potent opiate analgesic prescribing. It analyses the intensive marketing and lobbying of federal regulating bodies, state and federal government, and the powerful influence on medical and pharmacy professional bodies. And the large profits the pharmaceutical industry have made. It looks at experiences of people harmed and how their concerns were ignored by regulating authorities, state and national government. It describes how medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies constructed an epidemic of untreated pain with opioids as a safe and effective first-line treatment.