Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop

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Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop

Book: Paperback 15 - 11 - 2016

Product ID: 1813806

Condition: New
  • Johns Hopkins University Press

Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-10 : 1421421402

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Review 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.” ― MetapsychologyDrug 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 AffairsAnna 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 ― UndarkAs 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.A phenomenal read. -- Chris Hayes ― MSNBC All in with Chris Hayes. . . substantial and satisfying. . . a lucid and fluid distillation of how large pharmaceutical companies capitalized on and shaped an era in which ‘doctors are expected not just to lessen pain, but to eliminate it altogether’ and ‘changing brain chemistry’ has become “the new way to normalize differences." ― TLS. . . excellent . . . ― Threepenny ReviewThe best summary around of the perils of owning a prescription pad. -- Abigail Zuger ― The New York TimesA unique and appealing look at the prescription opioid epidemic. Lembke's broad contextual discussion of the changing history of organized medicine's approach to pain is fascinating. -- G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for Drug Safety and EffectivenessLembke's novel viewpoint, brilliant synthesis of information, and use of patient stories bring the text to life. -- Marcus A. Bachhuber, MD, MSPH, Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical CenterDr. Lembke is a fearless, authentic voice on the over-prescription of addictive painkillers and its terrible public health consequences.  Drug Dealer, MD brings together her experience as a physician and her wisdom as a public policy analyst to create a must-read book for anyone who is grappling with America's ongoing opioid addiction and overdose crisis. -- Keith Humphreys, Stanford University Product Description The disturbing connection between well-meaning physicians and the prescription drug epidemic.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 opioid addiction nationwide. Combining case studies from her own practice with vital statistics drawn from public policy, cultural anthropology, and neuroscience, she explores the complex relationship between doctors and patients,

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