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Opium : How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Opium : How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 0316417661 ISBN 13: 9780316417662
Language: English
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium : How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 0316417661 ISBN 13: 9780316417662
Language: English
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Opium : How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 0316417661 ISBN 13: 9780316417662
Language: English
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Opium : How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
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Language: English
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Opium
Published by Little, Brown and Company, US, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
Paperback. Condition: New. Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even as the overdose crisis ravages our nation -- straining our prison system, dividing families, and defying virtually every legislative solution to treat it -- few understand how it came to be.Opium tells the "fascinating" (Lit Hub) and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis, "mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society" (Laurence Bergreen). The story begins with the discovery of poppy artefacts in ancient Mesopotamia, and goes on to explore how Greek physicians and obscure chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial empires marketed it around the world, and eventually how international drug companies developed a range of powerful synthetic opioids that led to an epidemic of addiction. Throughout, Dr. John Halpern and David Blistein reveal the fascinating role that opium has played in building our modern world, from trade networks to medical protocols to drug enforcement policies. Most importantly, they disentangle how crucial misjudgements, patterns of greed, and racial stereotypes served to transform one of nature's most effective painkillers into a source of unspeakable pain -- and how, using the insights of history, state-of-the-art science, and a compassionate approach to the illness of addiction, we can overcome today's overdose epidemic.This urgent and masterfully woven narrative tells an epic story of how one beautiful flower became the fascination of leaders, tycoons, and nations through the centuries and in their hands exposed the fragility of our civilisation.
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Opium : An Intimate History of the Flower That Changed the World
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
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Opium
Published by Little, Brown and Company, US, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: New. Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even as the overdose crisis ravages our nation -- straining our prison system, dividing families, and defying virtually every legislative solution to treat it -- few understand how it came to be.Opium tells the "fascinating" (Lit Hub) and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis, "mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society" (Laurence Bergreen). The story begins with the discovery of poppy artefacts in ancient Mesopotamia, and goes on to explore how Greek physicians and obscure chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial empires marketed it around the world, and eventually how international drug companies developed a range of powerful synthetic opioids that led to an epidemic of addiction. Throughout, Dr. John Halpern and David Blistein reveal the fascinating role that opium has played in building our modern world, from trade networks to medical protocols to drug enforcement policies. Most importantly, they disentangle how crucial misjudgements, patterns of greed, and racial stereotypes served to transform one of nature's most effective painkillers into a source of unspeakable pain -- and how, using the insights of history, state-of-the-art science, and a compassionate approach to the illness of addiction, we can overcome today's overdose epidemic.This urgent and masterfully woven narrative tells an epic story of how one beautiful flower became the fascination of leaders, tycoons, and nations through the centuries and in their hands exposed the fragility of our civilisation.
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Hachette Books 2020-12-10, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium : An Intimate History of the Flower That Changed the World
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 031641767X ISBN 13: 9780316417679
Language: English
Condition: New. pp. 352.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 328 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 328 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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Opium : how an ancient flower shaped and poisoned our world.
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 0316417661 ISBN 13: 9780316417662
Language: English
Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
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Add to basketCondition: as new. New York : Hachette Books, 2019. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxiv, 328 pp. 8 unnumbered pages of plates. illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (some color). 24 cm - In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the peak of the AIDs epidemic, more than die every year from breast cancer, and more Americans than died in the entire Vietnam War. But even though the overdose crisis ravaging our nation seems impossible to ignore, few understand how it came to be. OPIUM tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing story of how we arrived at today's crisis, a story that begins at the dawn of human civilization with enterprising poppy farmers in Mesopotamia, explores the breakthroughs of too-often forgotten experimental chemists in the Arab world who first refined poppy juice into opium, of colonial powers who spirited opium around the world in the interest of building out empires, of psychiatrists like Freud who ushered opium into modern medicine, and finally the story of the pharmaceutical conglomerates we know today that used opium and its more potent cousin, heroin, as a model for a wave of pills that laid the groundwork for today's overdose epidemic. Throughout, the book demonstrates how opium has served as a currency that helped develop the global economy. Wielded as a tool with which all kinds of brokers of power--empires like the British Commonwealth setting off China's Opium Wars, titans of modern medicine, and American drug companies, to name a few--could profit and expand, no matter the human cost, opium has proved both a frequent impetus for and obstacle to improving modern life. In its final chapter, OPIUM takes us inside the cutting edge of the opiate epidemic, showing how the nation's top doctors are confronting the crisis head on, in part using the lessons of opium's complex history. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780316417662. Keywords : POLITICS, narcotics opium.
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