Dopesick (book)
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America is a 2018 non-fiction book by American author Beth Macy. The book covers the origin and evolution of the opioid epidemic in the U
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Purdue Pharma
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Purdue Pharma L.P., known from 1892 to 2019 as the Purdue Frederick Company, was an American privately held pharmaceutical company founded by John Purdue Gray. It was sold to Arthur, Mortimer, and Ray
Dopesick (book)
…in displaying the history of careless treatment of opiates by many in the medical and pharmaceutical fields. Macy traces the more recent epidemic to Purdue Pharma and their 1996 release of the opioid painkiller OxyContin. Purdue was successful in having the drug approved for less serious ailments than opiates…
Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut