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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Time-Release History of the Opioid Epidemic
  name:
    name part: Campbell, J.N.
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      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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  name:
    name part: Rooney, Steven M.
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      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 134 p. 40 illus., 17 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This Brief takes the reader on a chemical journey by following the history for over two centuries of how an opiate became an opioid, thus spawning an empire and a series of crises. These imperfect resemblances of alkaloids are both natural and synthetic substances that, particularly in America, are continually part of a growing concern about overuse. This seemed an inviting prospect for those in pain, but as the ubiquitous media coverage continues to lay bare, the levels of abuse point to the fact that perhaps an epidemic is upon us, if not a culture war. Seeking answers to how and why this addiction crisis transpired over two hundred years of long development, this Brief examines the role that the chemistry laboratory played in turning patients into consumers. By utilizing a host of diverse sources, this Brief seeks to trace the design and the production of opioids and their antecedents over the past two centuries. From the isolation and development of the first alkaloids with morphine that relieved pain within the home and on the battlefield, to the widespread use of nostrums and the addiction crisis that ensued, to the dissemination of drugs by what became known as Big Pharma after the World Wars; and finally, to competition from home-made pharmaceuticals, the progenitor was always, in some form, a type of chemistry lab. At times, the laboratory pressed science to think deeply about society's maladies, such as curing disease and alleviating pain, in order to look for new opportunities in the name of progress. Despite the best intentions opioids have created a paradox of pain as they were manipulated by creating relief with synthetic precision and influencing a dystopian vision. Thus, influence came in many forms, from governments, from the medical community, and from the entrepreneurial aspirations of the general populace. For better, but mostly for worse, all played a role in changing forever the trajectory of what started with the isolation of a compound in Ger…
  table of contents: Introduction: Chemical Heterotopias -- Part One: Alkaloid Heterotopias -- Part Two: Synthetic Opiate Heterotopias -- Epilogue: Opioid Heterotopias.
  note: by J.N. Campbell, Steven M. Rooney.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry-History
  subject:
    topic: Organic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Medicine-History
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacology
  subject:
    topic: Psychopharmacology
  subject:
    topic: History of Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Organic Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacology/Toxicology
  subject:
    topic: Psychopharmacology
  classification: QD11-18
  classification: 540.9
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: SpringerBriefs in History of Chemistry
  identifier: 9783319917887
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91788-7
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    record creation date: 180609
    record change date: 20191023152350.0
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