Bibliograph

In pain, a bioethicist's personal struggle with opioids, Travis Rieder

Type

Label

In pain, a bioethicist's personal struggle with opioids, Travis Rieder

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-284) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In pain

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1104208125

Responsibility statement

Travis Rieder

Sub title

a bioethicist's personal struggle with opioids

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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