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In the United States, medical beliefs about treating pain shifted near the end of the 20th century toward greater use of opiates. “Pill mills” proliferated as doctors wrote prescriptions without closely examining patients. As journalist Sam Quinones reports, the opiate epidemic left America vulnerable to Mexican heroin. A network of heroin cells called the Xalisco Boys operated like a pizza-delivery business. Such cells and the proliferation of pain clinics generated widespread addiction. In 2012, opiates led to more unintended deaths in the US than car accidents. Quinones shows how pharma companies and heroin dealers produced the deadliest drug scourge in American history.
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Bloomsbury Press
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