Alastor Blake’s Reviews > Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America > Status Update

There’s so much awful information in this book already. One of many deceptive marketing tactics that leapt out as most sinister was the creation by Purdue Pharma of the concept of “pseudoaddiction,” in which opioid addicted patients are said to display behaviors of addicts because they are actually still in pain and are seeking more drugs to ease that pain, not because they’ve become physically addicted…