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Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop, Anna Lembke, MD

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Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that it's built on well-meaning doctors treating patients with real problems. Combining case studies from her own practice with vital statistics drawn from public policy, cultural anthropology, and neuroscience, Dr. Anna Lembke explores the complex relationship between doctors and patients, the science of addiction, and the barriers to successfully addressing drug dependence and addiction. Full of extensive interviews -- with health care providers, pharmacists, social workers, hospital administrators, insurance company executives, journalists, economists, advocates, and patients and their families -- Drug Dealer, MD is for anyone whose life has been touched in some way by addiction to prescription drugs. Dr. Lembke gives voice to the millions of Americans struggling with prescription drugs while singling out the real culprits behind the rise in opioid addiction: cultural narratives that promote pills as quick fixes, pharmaceutical corporations in cahoots with organized medicine, and a new medical bureaucracy focused on the bottom line that favors pills, procedures, and patient satisfaction over wellness
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eng
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1 online resource (xi, 172 pages)
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  • What is addiction, who's at risk, and how do people recover?
  • Prescription drugs as the new gateway to addiction
  • Pain is dangerous, difference is psychopathology : the role of illness narratives
  • Big Pharma joins Big Medicine : co-opting medical science to promote pill-taking
  • The drug-seeking patient : malingering versus the hijacked brain
  • The professional patient : illness as identity and a right to be compensated
  • The compassionate doctor, the narcissistic injury, and the primitive defense
  • Pill mills and the Toyota-ization of medicine
  • Addiction, the disease insurance companies still won't pay doctors to treat
  • Stopping the cycle of compulsive prescribing
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9781421421414
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Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop
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Drug dealer, MD
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how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop
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Anna Lembke, MD
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eng
Summary
Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that it's built on well-meaning doctors treating patients with real problems. Combining case studies from her own practice with vital statistics drawn from public policy, cultural anthropology, and neuroscience, Dr. Anna Lembke explores the complex relationship between doctors and patients, the science of addiction, and the barriers to successfully addressing drug dependence and addiction. Full of extensive interviews -- with health care providers, pharmacists, social workers, hospital administrators, insurance company executives, journalists, economists, advocates, and patients and their families -- Drug Dealer, MD is for anyone whose life has been touched in some way by addiction to prescription drugs. Dr. Lembke gives voice to the millions of Americans struggling with prescription drugs while singling out the real culprits behind the rise in opioid addiction: cultural narratives that promote pills as quick fixes, pharmaceutical corporations in cahoots with organized medicine, and a new medical bureaucracy focused on the bottom line that favors pills, procedures, and patient satisfaction over wellness
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1967-
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Lembke, Anna
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615.7/83
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index present
LC call number
RM319
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.L46 2016eb
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non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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QV 95
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  • Analgesics
  • Medication abuse
  • Physician and patient
  • Drugs
  • Drug addiction
  • Analgesics
  • Drug addiction
  • Drugs
  • Medication abuse
  • Physician and patient
  • Analgesics
  • Prescription Drug Misuse
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Inappropriate Prescribing
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Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop, Anna Lembke, MD
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index
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What is addiction, who's at risk, and how do people recover? -- Prescription drugs as the new gateway to addiction -- Pain is dangerous, difference is psychopathology : the role of illness narratives -- Big Pharma joins Big Medicine : co-opting medical science to promote pill-taking -- The drug-seeking patient : malingering versus the hijacked brain -- The professional patient : illness as identity and a right to be compensated -- The compassionate doctor, the narcissistic injury, and the primitive defense -- Pill mills and the Toyota-ization of medicine -- Addiction, the disease insurance companies still won't pay doctors to treat -- Stopping the cycle of compulsive prescribing
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1 online resource (xi, 172 pages)
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9781421421414
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Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop, Anna Lembke, MD
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index
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online resource
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multicolored
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Contents
What is addiction, who's at risk, and how do people recover? -- Prescription drugs as the new gateway to addiction -- Pain is dangerous, difference is psychopathology : the role of illness narratives -- Big Pharma joins Big Medicine : co-opting medical science to promote pill-taking -- The drug-seeking patient : malingering versus the hijacked brain -- The professional patient : illness as identity and a right to be compensated -- The compassionate doctor, the narcissistic injury, and the primitive defense -- Pill mills and the Toyota-ization of medicine -- Addiction, the disease insurance companies still won't pay doctors to treat -- Stopping the cycle of compulsive prescribing
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1 online resource (xi, 172 pages)
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9781421421414
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computer
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rdamedia
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11927aa5-fac8-40f0-8ade-6af20f63cf2a
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