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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two tales of capitalism catastrophically run amok. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of drug use and abuse, presents cases for legalization, decriminalization, and other drug policy reforms, as well as the case for strengthening existing drug policy, and examines policies in other countries.
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