6 Best medicine books like American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal

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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…

If you liked the medicine plot in American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

By: Claudia Rowe

3.21

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A true story of a female journalist, her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her … read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rowe's The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

By: Kathleen Collins

3.84

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the… read more

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  • audiobook
"The South must be a terrible place."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"Louise lives on excellent terms with her solitude."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"Is it possible to imagine any greater amputation, any greater karmic debt, than reincarnation as a Negro?"

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ..."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

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3. Oranges

By: John McPhee

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more

Similar categories in John McPhee's Oranges book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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4. Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

By: Bassem Youssef

4.36

Format: 184 pages, ebook

"Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem." … read more

Similar categories in Bassem Youssef's Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. American Hunger: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series

By: Eli Saslow

3.90

Format: 144 pages, ebook

An eBook short. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting In this Pulitzer Prize-winni… read more

Similar categories in Eli Saslow's American Hunger: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

6. 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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7. Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I

By: Paula Becker

3.88

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Betty Bard MacDonald (1907-1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Pig… read more

Similar categories in Paula Becker's Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

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8. Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

By: Alissa Quart

3.37

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies t… read more

Similar categories in Alissa Quart's Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

Similar categories in Oliver Franklin-Wallis's Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

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10. Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back

By: Sarah Ransome

3.99

Format: 272 pages, ebook

For the first time ever, a survivor tells the shocking inside story of her time trapped in Jeffrey … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ransome's Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

By: Paul A. Offit

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thor… read more

Similar categories in Paul A. Offit's Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Beth Macy's Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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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13. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

By: Ben Austen

4.33

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction b… read more

Similar categories in Ben Austen's High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

By: Kenneth Womack

4.16

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  … read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Womack's Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Barry Meier's Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me by Erin Khar

17. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

By: Erin Khar

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” — New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Erin Khar's Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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19. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

By: C. Alexander Hortis

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more

Similar categories in C. Alexander Hortis's The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. 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

Similar categories in Ben Westhoff's Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup

By: Evan Hughes

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until… read more

Similar categories in Evan Hughes's The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America

By: David Kamp

3.90

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling writer David Kamp, the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story of the cultural heroes … read more

Similar categories in David Kamp's Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth

24. Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

By: Karina Longworth

4.08

Format: 576 pages, ebook

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings o… read more

Similar categories in Karina Longworth's Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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25. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Catte's What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss

26. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

By: Piper Weiss

3.27

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more

Similar categories in Piper Weiss's You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. 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

Similar categories in Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry by Scott Higham

28. American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

By: Scott Higham

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created an… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • audiobook
Cover of White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland by Dick Lehr

29. White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland

By: Dick Lehr

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack again… read more

Similar categories in Dick Lehr's White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • audiobook
Cover of Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories by Sarah Coolidge

30. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Coolidge's Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

Cover of Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump

31. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir book and Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

25 must-read audiobook books like American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal

Transform Your Habits

The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

Claudia Rowe

3.21

Transform Your Habits

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Kathleen Collins

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

Alissa Quart

3.37

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Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Cassie Chambers

3.96

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Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

3.73

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Taylor Brown

3.89

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Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

Neema Avashia

4.26

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