Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Description: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America details the roles of pharmaceutical companies, medical professionals, and drug dealers in the development of the U.S. opioid crisis over two decades
ISBN: 0316551244
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The evidence base for 12 step programmes isn't great.
Unfortunately the US has a load of wilderness-retreat style camps using some half-assed version of a 12 step program. They're very good at getting people's money and attention, but pretty poor at sucessful treatment.
Beth Macey has a good book about the Opioid Crisis and some of it is alarming.
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