A Time-Release History of the Opioid Epidemic

• Main Authors: Campbell, J.N (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rooney, Steven M. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in History of Chemistry,
• Subjects: Chemistry-History.; Organic chemistry.; Medicine-History.; Pharmacology.; Psychopharmacology.; History of Chemistry.; Organic Chemistry.; History of Medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

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...