Look What Dragged the Cat In: The rise of an opioid crisis
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Author: Scott Stevens
Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc.
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1644386038
ISBN 13: 978-1644386033
An American morphine crisis in the 1860, cocaine in the 1890s, heroin in the 1910s, methamphetamines in the 1950s, another heroin crisis in the 1970s, back to cocaine in he 1980s, another trip back to meth in the 2000s, and a prediction for a return to meth and cocaine again after the current opioid crisis ebbs. Drugmakers, dope dealers and physicians didn't incubate crisis after crisis. Their hands aren't clean, but they're not as dirty as the public perceives. The public misinterpretation stems from its own love affair with the cheapest, easiest to get, most lethal drug: Alcohol. Every drug death from every crisis has one thing in common: They are all alcohol-related. Look What Dragged the Cat In takes a deep dive into the opioid crisis, the suspects, the failed solutions, and the way out.
Review
Dr. Winn Henderson, M.D.
"Look What Dragged the Cat In" is easily the best book I have read on the health effects of alcohol on the human body. Scott's book presented the information in a verifiable, accurate, and to-the-point way that no logical thinking individual who is not already addicted to alcohol would want to continue to drink. I was a social drinker for 55 years prior to reading Scott's book. I no longer drink.
Rev. Winn Henderson, M. D., Author of Freedom From Addiction 3
July 5, 2019
Finalist 2019 Book Excellence Awards, Addiction & Recovery category
WINNER 2018 USA Best Books Awards, Current Events category
Finalist 2018 USA Best Books Awards, Health, Addiction & Recovery category
WRITER'S DIGEST
Extremely topical, this hardcover book on the opioid crisis illumines with clarity and candor the history of how this deplorable situation arose, its current status, and what might be done to contain if not eradicate it. The author breaks down the difference between an opiate and opioid and establishes that the country faces a crisis and not an epidemic. He also carefully corrects various misconceptions held by the public and sometimes spread by the media. Blame is carefully apportioned between drug companies, physicians, and insurance companies/prescribers. He takes to task unproven and ineffective means to combat the crisis and concentrates on causative factors such as alcoholism and its many related health risks. Emphasis is put on better primary prevention measures such as prohibiting alcohol advertising, lessening public consumption, pricing alcohol higher, and preventing first use by adults as well as children.
The writing, using everyday language, provides a comprehensive rundown of various drugs and their effects, treatments used and their impact, and the role of media and the political world. Subheads enable quick reading. Many quotes, both informative and provocative, embellish the lucid text.
-- December 2019
About the Author
Scott Stevens is the author of five award-winning addiction, health, and recovery titles since 2010. Among the honors earned by the journalist and 2015 SAMHSA Voice Awards nominee: Three USA Best Books awards, a Next Generation Indie Books award, and a Book Excellence award. Stevens was named Chair of the 2018 International Conference on Addiction Therapy and Clinical Reports.