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Addiction, Inc.

Emily Dufton

How the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction—until America’s opioid crisis got privatized for profit, to the detriment of patients. Despite epidemic levels of overdoses in the United States, by 2020, only twenty percent of...

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Opening Credits

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A Note on Language

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Introduction: Dana

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Prologue: Shreveport, LA, 1923

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Part 1. The “Cinderella Drug”: Methadone - Chapter 1: America’s “Walking Time Bombs”

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2. “We Are Animals in a World No One Knows”

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Chapter 3. “DC Should Not Stand for Disorder and Crime”

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Chapter 4. A “Virgin Yet Fertile Area for Social and Political Gain”

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Chapter 5. “Camelot”

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Chapter 6. “Oversold Both to the Addict and the Public”

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Part 2. Federal Failures: Naltrexone and LAAM - Chapter 7. “I Envision the Methadone Clinic as We Now Know It Disappearing”

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Chapter 8. For the “Motivated Addict”

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Chapter 9. “The Dark Ages”

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Chapter 10. The Decade of the Brain

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Part 3. The “Holy Grail”: Buprenorphine - Chapter 11. DATA 2000

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Chapter 12. Start the Fire, Sell the Hose

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Chapter 13. “Reset Reality”

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Chapter 13. “Reset Reality” (continued)

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Part 4. Alternatives - Chapter 14. The Swiss Way

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Conclusion: Years of Life Lost

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Acknowledgments

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End Credits

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