Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic
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Burlington Public Library - Non-fiction
615.783 WESTHOFF 2019
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615.783 WESTHOFF 2019
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LC Subjects
Designer drugs.
Drug abuse -- Fentanyl.
Drug addiction -- United States.
Drug adulteration.
Drug development -- United States -- History.
Drug factories.
Drug traffic -- China.
Drugs -- Overdose.
Drugs -- Toxicology.
Drugs of abuse -- History.
Fentanyl -- Economic aspects.
Fentanyl -- History.
Fentanyl -- Physiological aspects.
Fentanyl -- Sociological aspects.
Fentanyl.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- China -- Government relations.
Pharmaceutical industry -- China.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Drug abuse -- Fentanyl.
Drug addiction -- United States.
Drug adulteration.
Drug development -- United States -- History.
Drug factories.
Drug traffic -- China.
Drugs -- Overdose.
Drugs -- Toxicology.
Drugs of abuse -- History.
Fentanyl -- Economic aspects.
Fentanyl -- History.
Fentanyl -- Physiological aspects.
Fentanyl -- Sociological aspects.
Fentanyl.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- China -- Government relations.
Pharmaceutical industry -- China.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Book
Physical Desc
viii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-328) and index.
Description
"A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. "A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape," writes Ben Westhoff. "These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs"--and all-too-often tragically lethal. Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice--and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe-- were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the drugs' effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these drugs and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand. Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these drugs emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China's vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the U.S. and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many."--Publisher's website.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Westhoff, B. (2019). Fentanyl, Inc.: how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic (First edition.). Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Westhoff, Ben. 2019. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Westhoff, Ben. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Westhoff, Ben. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic First edition., Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
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