Ebook: Drug dealer, MD: how doctors were duped, patients got hooked, and why it's so hard to stop

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.