8 must-read true crime books like Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic by Ben Westhoff

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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Ben Westhoff

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici…

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1. Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop

By: Anna Lembke

4.01

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to… read more

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  • health
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"Doctors and health care institutions are complicit in the medicalization of poverty that encourages the creation of professional patients."

-Anna Lembke, Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop

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2. The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)

By: John Dunning

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cliff Janeway, a book dealer, agrees to collect a woman who has skipped bail in Seattle. But when h… read more

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"We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far."

-John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)

"The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people."

-John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)

"The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal."

-John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)

3. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

By: Sam Quinones

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more

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4. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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5. Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change

By: None

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Brain-based therapy is the fastest-growing area in the field of psychological health because it has… read more

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6. Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

By: Ioan Grillo

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal … read more

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7. Worm: The First Digital World War

By: Mark Bowden

4.53

Format: 288 pages,

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8. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

By: John Temple

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the Edgar(r) Award in Best Fact Crime. Nominee for Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of t… read more

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9. Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic

By: Kevin Grange

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emerg… read more

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10. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Beth Macy

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more

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"The corporation feels no pain."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

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11. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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12. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

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Cover of Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier

13. Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

By: Barry Meier

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid e… read more

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14. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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15. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

By: Sam Quinones

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more

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16. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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Cover of Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic by Ben Westhoff

17. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Ben Westhoff

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more

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18. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

By: Jennifer Vanderbes

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more

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Cover of Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information by Paul A. Offit

19. Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information

By: Paul A. Offit

4.12

Format: None pages, ebook

Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naive in … read more

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Cover of The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom  Ireland

20. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

By: Tom Ireland

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more

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Cover of Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels by Ioan Grillo

21. Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels

By: Ioan Grillo

4.22

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands o… read more

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Cover of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal

22. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

By: Chris McGreal

4.15

Format: 336 pages, ebook

The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more

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Cover of The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism by R. Derek Black

23. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

By: R. Derek Black

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more

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Cover of Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry by Kelly Richmond Pope

24. Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry

By: Kelly Richmond Pope

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from fore… read more

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Cover of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos by Mark Chiusano

25. The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos

By: Mark Chiusano

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turnin… read more

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Cover of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty by Nikhil Goyal

26. Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty

By: Nikhil Goyal

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the po… read more

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Cover of Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report by Covid Crisis Group

27. Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report

By: Covid Crisis Group

3.99

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 … read more

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Cover of First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance by Annie Jacobsen

28. First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.16

Format: 399 pages, ebook

An urgent investigation into warfare, good, and evil in the age of biometrics, the technology that … read more

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Cover of Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

29. Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media

By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

15 “simple but powerful” ( The New York Times Book Review ) strategies for raising emotionally heal… read more

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30. Madoff: The Final Word

By: Richard Behar

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff’s arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar deliver… read more

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31. The Desert Knows Her Name

By: Lia Hills

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why. On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoo… read more

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3.92

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4.08

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4.28

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Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

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3.68

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Roy A. Meals

3.59

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