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Raising Lazarus : hope, justice, and the future of America's overdose crisis / Beth Macy.

Summary:

"Well into the third decade of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. While addiction rate have soared to record-breaking levels during the COVID pandemic, there is still scant consensus between law enforcement and medical leaders, nor a sense of how to scale the programs that are out there, actually saving lives but working at the ragged edge of capacity."--back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780316430210
ISBN: 0316430218
Physical Description: xxvi, 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 21 cm
Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition
Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books, 2023.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-355) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: The secret of patient care -- Part one: Affliction. Stone-rollers ; Die-in ; Freeze frame ; White privilege -- Part two: Acta non verba. The avengers ; Good criminals ; Weaponizing addiction ; Peer pressure -- Part three: Baby steps. The moral arc ; Encounters with the unseen ; Backburn -- Part four: Judge for yourselves. "You literally cannot give a shit" ; The war on people -- Epilogue.