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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
November 30, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeFrom Powell’s website:
The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.” But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming over 80 percent of the world’s opioid painkillers. Chris McGreal’s American Overdose (PublicAffairs) reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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