In pain : a bioethicist's personal struggle with opioids / Travis Rieder.
By: Rieder, Travis [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ©2019Edition: First edition.Description: xiii, 297 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062854643.Subject(s): Rieder, Travis -- Health | Opioid abuse -- United States | Opioid abuse -- Treatment -- United States | Drug addiction -- United States | Pain -- Treatment -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC568.O45 R54 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015332 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-284) and index.
A salvage situation -- Pain and drugs -- The swinging pendulum -- The opioid dilemma -- Abandoned -- Dependence and addiction -- What doctors owe patients -- Recovery -- Pain, drugs, and doing the right thing -- America's three opioid epidemics -- Epilogue: Making a difference.
A bioethicist's memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal exposes the American health care system's failures at managing the use of opioids for pain relief and reveals the lack of resources and structures to handle the nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction.