Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 240 g
How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 240 g
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2140-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
The disturbing connection between well-meaning physicians and the prescription drug epidemic.
Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of 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.
In Drug Dealer, MD, Dr. Anna Lembke uncovers the unseen forces driving opioid addiction nationwide. Combining case studies from her own practice with vital statistics drawn from public policy, cultural anthropology, and neuroscience, she explores the complex relationship between doctors and patients, the science of addiction, and the barriers to successfully addressing drug dependence and addiction. Even when addiction is recognized by doctors and their patients, she argues, many doctors don’t know how to treat it, connections to treatment are lacking, and insurance companies won’t pay for rehab.
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. Dr. Lembke concludes that the prescription drug epidemic is a symptom of a faltering health care system, the solution for which lies in rethinking how health care is delivered.
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Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Prescription Drug Epidemic
Chapter 2. What is Addiction and Who's at Risk?
Chapter 3. Pain is Dangerous, Difference is Psychopathology: The Role of Illness Narratives
Chapter 4. Big Pharma Joins Big Medicine, Co-Opting Medical Science to Promote Pill-Taking
Chapter 5. The Drug-Seeking Patient: Malingering vs the Hijacked Brain
Chapter 6. The Professional Patient: Illness as Identity and a Right to Be Compensated
Chapter 7. The Compassionate Doctor, the Narcissistic Injury, and the Primitive Defense
Chapter 8. Pill Mills and the Toyota-ization of Medicine
Chapter 9. Addiction, the Disease Insurance Companies Still Won't Pay Doctors to Treat
Chapter 10. Stopping the Cycle of Compulsive Prescribing
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