Drug Dealer, MD
How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop
$44.27
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2016
Summary
Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that it’s built on well-meaning doctors treating patients with real problems. In Drug Dealer, MD, Dr. Anna Lembke uncovers the unseen forces driving opio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421421407 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1421421402 |
| Author: | Anna Lembke |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
”… the most important medical book of the decade.”
A thought-provoking study that all healthcare professionals and patients should read. Library Journal … a story with mythic resonance. Times Higher Education “… excellent… It’s a short book, concisely written, giving plenty of examples of patients’ stories while at the same time showing trends in policy and national practice.” Metapsychology Drug Dealer, MD offers a fresh, comprehensive perspective on addiction and prescription drugs. The patient narratives provide compassionate, albeit sometimes extreme, examples of how the medical field has failed patients, while the data provide the facts needed to prove that this truly is a system failure rather than any one person’s fault. This thought-provoking book should be a must-read for medical trainees, providers, and health policy leaders working at the forefront of addressing the prescription drug epidemic. Health Affairs Anna Lembke sheds light on the rise of prescription drug addiction in the USA, fuelled in part by the actions of doctors and the structure of the US healthcare system. London School of Economics Review of Books … The book is written in a clear, easy-to-read style with lay readers in mind. Pharmaceutical Journal … once I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down. Drug Dealer, MD … the most important medical book of the decade. – Abigail Zuger Undark As far as I am concerned, “Drug Dealer, M.D.,” in less than 200 unassuming, readable, and carefully referenced pages, may be the most important medical book of the decade for finally getting the story of this epidemic exactly right… every doctor and concerned citizen can take a first step in the right direction by reading Anna Lembke’s book.
About The Author
Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke, MD, is the chief of addiction medicine and an assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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