Tag: Opioid

April 25, 2024

Howling Up to the Sky The Opioid Epidemic

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Free Download Jaynie Royal, "Howling Up to the Sky: The Opioid Epidemic"
English | 2018 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 1947548328 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Pact Press brings you Howling Up to the Sky, the second anthology in a series designed to spark conversation, promote awareness, and generate funds to assist in our battle against addiction. Contained within are throughtful, thought-provoking essays on addiction, recovery, loss and hope by Barbara Lodge, Abigail Warren, Sarah Ghoshal, Ken Benson, Anna Schoenbach, Laura Golden, and Alma McKinley. The anthology also includes a short story by Jenean McBearty and poems by Tom Pescatore, Susan Vespoli, Kerry Rawlinson, Edison Jennings, Cynthia McCain, Brian Koester, Jemshed Khan, Justin Karcher, Nathanael Stolte, Damian Rucci, Will Cordeiro, Larry Thacker, and Luke Muyskens. We are grateful to Catherine McDowell, Executive Director of Roots of Recovery, for her insightful forward.Pact Press is proud, in the sale of this anthology, to support the fine work of Shatterproof in their efforts to assist families and individuals struggling with addiction.

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January 10, 2024

Pain Hustlers Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally published as The Hard Sell

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Free Download Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally published as The Hard Sell by Evan Hughes
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 0525566325 | 288 pages | PDF | 3.06 Mb
The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers-until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. * THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PAIN HUSTLERS STARRING EMILY BLUNT AND CHRIS EVANS

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January 1, 2024

How We Hurt The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic

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Free Download Lead Health Researcher Melina Sherman, "How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic"
English | ISBN: B0C2ZR1STK | 2023 | 200 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
How We Hurt dives into the institutional and cultural dimensions of the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a detailed analysis of pain management, opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, self-help, and public discourses on opioid addiction, Melina Sherman argues that the linchpin underlying the opioid epidemic’s evolution in North America is the problem of pain. By unpacking the politics of pain in different domains, How We Hurt shows how the crisis emerged and shifted, and why it looks the way it does today. The book’s chapters begin by tracing the trajectory of opioids in pain management, where decisions regarding the measurement of pain led to relief becoming wedded to opioids in medicine. The following chapters examine the problem of pain in opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, and the self-help industry. In these areas, a disastrous combination of strategic ignorance and deep-seated ties between public health entities and pharmaceutical companies drove the influx of opioids onto the market and into our medicine cabinets. The book’s penultimate chapter applies the analysis of pain to the problem of opioid addiction in popular discourse and shows how the opioid crisis has evolved alongside new conceptions of addiction and people who use opioids that condition whose pain is seen as legitimate and whose is not. Finally, the book concludes by considering the implications of its findings for the development of drug policy and future research on public health disasters, insisting on an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approach to the study of pain and its place American culture.

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