Displaying 1 of 1 2016 Format: Book Author: Lembke, Anna, 1967- Title: Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop / Anna Lembke, MD. Publisher, Date: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Description: xi, 172 pages ; 22 cm Subjects: Analgesics. Medication abuse. Physician and patient. Drugs -- Prescribing. Drug addiction. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: What is addiction, who's at risk, and how do people recover? -- Prescription drugs as the new gateway to addiction -- Pain is dangerous, difference is psychopathology : the role of illness narratives -- Big Pharma joins Big Medicine : co-opting medical science to promote pill-taking -- The drug-seeking patient : malingering versus the hijacked brain -- The professional patient : illness as identity and a right to be compensated -- The compassionate doctor, the narcissistic injury, and the primitive defense -- Pill mills and the Toyota-ization of medicine -- Addiction, the disease insurance companies still won't pay doctors to treat -- Stopping the cycle of compulsive prescribing. LCCN: 2016010031 ISBN: 9781421421407 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1421421402 (pbk. : alk. paper) * 9781421421414 (electronic) * 1421421410 (electronic) 9781421421407 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1421421402 (pbk. : alk. paper) Other Number: 944408451 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 632659 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 615.783 Lembke Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
