Pain Killer (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Barry Meier | knygos.lt

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An updated and expanded edition of a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter's prescient investigation of the origins of the opioid addiction epidemic, the greatest health crisis of the 21st century.

Hailed as a prescient, landmark work of investigative journalism, Pain Killer, first published in 2003 and newly updated, tells the tale of medical mistakes, government indifference and corporate greed that involved one of America's wealthiest and most secretive families. The greatest health crisis of the 21st century is the plague of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers and illegal narcotics, or "opioids." Barry Meier reveals the origins of this man-made epidemic through the story of the drug that became the gateway to it, OxyContin. Now, in this revised and expanded edition, Meier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, brings this extraordinary saga full circle by revealing new and shocking information about what OxyContin's maker really knew about it dangers and how public officials allowed the truth to be concealed.