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“Groundbreaking . . . the shocking account of the origins of today's opioid epidemic, the creators of this plague, and the way to help stop it.”—Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
“Prescient . . . a landmark work of investigative journalism.”—David A. Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and author of The End of Overeating
Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink.
In Pain Killer, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter Barry Meier exposes the roots of the most pressing health epidemic of the twenty-first century. Powerful narcotic painkillers, or opioids, were once used as drugs of last resort for pain sufferers. Purdue turned OxyContin into a billion-dollar blockbuster by launching an unprecedented marketing campaign claiming that the drug’s long-acting formulation made it safer to use than traditional painkillers for many types of pain. That illusion was quickly shattered as drug abusers learned that crushing an Oxy could release its narcotic payload all at once. Even in its prescribed form, Oxy proved fiercely addictive. As OxyContin’s use and abuse grew, Purdue concealed what it knew from regulators, doctors, and patients.
Here are the people who profited from the crisis and those who paid the price, those who plotted in boardrooms and those who tried to sound alarm bells. A country doctor in rural Virginia, Art Van Zee, took on Purdue and warned officials about OxyContin abuse. An ebullient high school cheerleader, Lindsey Myers, was reduced to stealing from her parents to feed her escalating Oxy habit. A hard-charging DEA official, Laura Nagel, tried to hold Purdue executives to account. The drugmaker’s owners, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, whose names adorn museums worldwide, made enormous fortunes from the commercial success of OxyContin.
In this updated edition of Pain Killer, Barry Meier breaks new ground in his decades-long investigation into the opioid epidemic. He takes readers inside Purdue to show how long the company withheld information about the abuse of OxyContin and gives a shocking account of the Justice Department’s failure to alter the trajectory of the opioid epidemic and protect thousands of lives. Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story, and business exposé, Pain Killer is a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the gateway drug to a national tragedy.
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"'Pain Killer' is about greed. It's that simple. Without question pharmaceutical companies have improved the quality of life for many people. However, not everything they do or have done can be viewed as spewing out rainbows and sunshine, not by a long shot. Big Pharma are huge corporate entities focused first-and-foremost on maximizing profits and keeping shareholders happy. Concern for people is secondary. While Mr. Meier's investigation focuses on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma's marketing of OxyContin, the reader might want to keep in mind that the malfeasance described is not a pharmaceutical outlier.
The well-respected New York Times reporter, Mr. Meier, specialized on the intersection between business, medicine, and public health. 'Pain Killer' is a compact 198-page explanation of how the OxyContin drug epidemic unfolded. The very first paragraph in the book took my breath away. It describes a few families' struggles because of OxyContin but focuses mostly on Purdue Pharma and how they marketed a drug knowing full well their little pills were highly addictive and wreaking havoc on communities. The book covers such topics as pill mills, the nature and history of pain, iatrogenic addiction, the pain-management movement, opioids, career bribery, lobbying junkets, the misuse of science, influence-peddling by doctors paid by drug companies, and the FDA's and DEA's actions towards Purdue Pharma. There are everyday heroes in the book who were ringing the bell very early on about what OxyContin was doing to people, but the executives at Purdue Pharma resorted to public-relations efforts, legal manipulations, job offers, and money to keep the OxyContin gravy train rollin' along.
The book is a fast, interesting, very educational read and should have you so upset that you'll be frothing at the mouth while reading it. These unethical executives and the sales representatives are the reason the current heroin epidemic is raging across our country. Will any of them eventually be stripped of their wealth and spend a great deal of time in the hoosegow? Well, let's just say there's a better chance of Janis Joplin going on a comeback tour."
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Pain Killer An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America Opioid Epidemic 9780525511106 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews :
Pain Killer An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America Opioid Epidemic 9780525511106 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews
- 'Pain Killer' is about greed. It's that simple. Without question pharmaceutical companies have improved the quality of life for many people. However, not everything they do or have done can be viewed as spewing out rainbows and sunshine, not by a long shot. Big Pharma are huge corporate entities focused first-and-foremost on maximizing profits and keeping shareholders happy. Concern for people is secondary. While Mr. Meier's investigation focuses on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma's marketing of OxyContin, the reader might want to keep in mind that the malfeasance described is not a pharmaceutical outlier.
The well-respected New York Times reporter, Mr. Meier, specialized on the intersection between business, medicine, and public health. 'Pain Killer' is a compact 198-page explanation of how the OxyContin drug epidemic unfolded. The very first paragraph in the book took my breath away. It describes a few families' struggles because of OxyContin but focuses mostly on Purdue Pharma and how they marketed a drug knowing full well their little pills were highly addictive and wreaking havoc on communities. The book covers such topics as pill mills, the nature and history of pain, iatrogenic addiction, the pain-management movement, opioids, career bribery, lobbying junkets, the misuse of science, influence-peddling by doctors paid by drug companies, and the FDA's and DEA's actions towards Purdue Pharma. There are everyday heroes in the book who were ringing the bell very early on about what OxyContin was doing to people, but the executives at Purdue Pharma resorted to public-relations efforts, legal manipulations, job offers, and money to keep the OxyContin gravy train rollin' along.
The book is a fast, interesting, very educational read and should have you so upset that you'll be frothing at the mouth while reading it. These unethical executives and the sales representatives are the reason the current heroin epidemic is raging across our country. Will any of them eventually be stripped of their wealth and spend a great deal of time in the hoosegow? Well, let's just say there's a better chance of Janis Joplin going on a comeback tour. - Terrifying tale of the cynical capitalist behavior on the part of Perdue Pharma that has created the opioid crisis that has and continues to destroy so many lives in our country and abroad.
- 2019, opioid crisis Thank You Perdue, not the chicken company Perdue Pharma! Follow this journey through the beginnings of the opioid crisis, who is to blame, could it of been averted? Read this and you will be shocked at the heartlessness of a small corporation and the absolute greed of its family that owns it. Every system failed to stop this over and over again! Deals were made at the expense of the safety of the American public, doctors were mislead. Some doctors aided the crisis under the protection of pain management. This book will have you questioning how our government was protecting us and how many failures were met with greed, and complete misunderstanding of the drugs they were prescribing.
- The book was interesting but contained same information as other books on the opiate epidemic. I felt other books such as Dopesick were easier to read. This book casts the spotlight on the Sackler family.
- I heard the author interviewed on NPR and was intrigued, especially about the Sackler family's idea for marketing painkillers. The book is direct and a good read.
- Couldn’t put it down once started. Read front to back in one sitting. Last chapter reveals obvious frustration of protagonist since first release of this tome.
- I bought this for a family member. It is in great condition and arrived quickly. Thank you
- This book highlight all the different areas in the opioid epedemic. The author is very well versed on the topic and write with a huge amount of clarity on the subject. This is a must read for anyone that is a doctor, student, or parent of an addict. Please do not let ignorance on the topic of opioids take you down the dark path of addiction.
