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White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America

by David Herzberg

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled them, from Bayer’s Heroin to Purdue’s OxyContin and all the drugs in between: barbiturate “goof balls,” am

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

Nov 12, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9780226731889