A timely guide to the misuse and abuse
of prescription painkillers that sorts the facts from the fiction for legitimate users and
their loved ones.
Description
Americans, it seems, have a history of self-medicating for pain. The high profile and increasingly widespread cases of prescription pain medication abuse that we’re seeing today serve as the latest chapter in America’s long-standing love/hate relationship with painkilling drugs. In this fascinating, informative, and timely book, Dr. Drew Pinsky and other leading experts in the fields of addiction and recovery discuss why Americans are using drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin, how American’s used and abused other painkillers in the past, what makes some people vulnerable to addiction, and how to get help for yourself or a family member in trouble with drugs.
Key Features
From kids in West Virginia to Rush Limbaugh, this topic is in the news and it’s not going away.
Hazelden—the #1 name in addiction and recovery—is the perfect publisher for this definitive guide.
Mass market trim (but trade paperback quality) makes this book perfect for drugstores, pharmacies, and groceries.
Lead author Dr. Drew Pinsky is nationally famous through his syndicated radio show (and his former television co-hosting job in MTV’s Loveline.) The co-authors are all major names in the addiction field.
Key Features
100,000 Copy
First Printing
Media
& Promotion
Radio exposure with author’s syndicated radio show, Loveline
Drew Pinsky, M.D., is program medical director of chemical dependency services at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California. He is co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline and the long-running MTV program of the same name. He is author of the best-selling book Cracked: Putting Lives Together Again. Dr. Pinsky is a correspondent for ABC News, Good Morning America, and a regular contributor for CNN. When he is not spending time with his wife Susan and their eleven-year-old triplets he lectures throughout the country and can be seen frequently providing commentary for television talk shows.
