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The Opioid Epidemic is the worst man-made epidemic in the history of our nation. More people die each year from an opioid overdose than in automobile accidents. The statistics are staggering. Do No Harm spotlights experts, journalists, and public-health crusaders who are combating the special interests of Big Pharma and informing the world on how an aggressive pharmaceutical mass-marketing campaign for the new drug OxyContin misled doctors and the public into our current crisis of death and addiction. Wiland highlights the stories of those hit hardest by prescription-opioid addiction and overdose death and sheds light on how whole communities have been ravaged by the spread of addiction. Despite regional health experts, local government, law enforcement, journalists, and the DEA's efforts to combat the epidemic, people continue to die at an alarming rate from prescription-drug overdoses. The chapters of this book chronical this epidemic in all its complexity from many perspectives including the plight of the millions of Americans who suffer from opioid addiction. People, young and old, on the rocky road to recovery tell their harrowing stories, current victories, and on-going struggles with the disease.

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Lewis Nelson, M.D., is the chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and University Hospital. His areas of interest include prescription-drug abuse. Andrew Kolodny, M.D., is the co-director of Opioid Policy and Research at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. As the executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP), he has made major headway in the fight against opioid prescriptions and addiction. Peter Segall is a journalist, writer, and researcher who is experienced in both field reporting and intensive research. A graduate from the University of California with bachelor's degrees in literature and history, he focuses on urban planning and infrastructure, education, and the pharmaceutical industry in his journalism. Adam Barr is a recovering lawyer, a twenty-five-year veteran of the golf industry, and an actor and a singer with a lifelong love of books and reading. An English major in college, he continued his education by studying with audiobook and voiceover veterans such as Johnny Heller, Steven Jay Cohen, and Tom Dheere. He currently resides with his wife and their Goldendoodle in New York City.

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