Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop /
Lembke, Anna, 1967-
Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop / Anna Lembke, MD. - xi, 172 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421421407 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1421421402 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2016010031
Analgesics.
Medication abuse.
Physician and patient.
Drugs--Prescribing.
Drug addiction.
Drug dealer, MD : how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop / Anna Lembke, MD. - xi, 172 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421421407 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1421421402 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2016010031
Analgesics.
Medication abuse.
Physician and patient.
Drugs--Prescribing.
Drug addiction.