美国之痛
American pain
John Temple · 初版 2015 年
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处方药泛滥时期的龙头诊所当属 American Pain，这家巨型诊所堪称同类机构的鼻祖原型。在一栋原本洁净的前银行大楼里，医生们每天向成百上千名客户分发海量羟考酮（oxycodone），这些人大都是成群乘面包车赶来的药贩子和瘾君子。满身刺青的肌肉男负责安保，用‘欢迎来到毒品窝！’的叫喊声迎接清晨涌来的嗑药大军。脱衣舞女和高档应召女郎则充当药剂师，清点药丸并将大笔现金塞进垃圾袋里。
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……https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hurwitz。不过听 Big Pharma（大型制药公司）说起来，压根儿就没有所谓的“过度开药”。如果你想了解当时的处方狂潮到底失控到了什么地步，可以看看 John Temple 写的《American Pain》，里面描述了南佛罗里达的那些“药丸作坊”（pill mills）。阿巴拉契亚地区的小镇过去经常包大巴把人送到这些药房。颠簸了 12 到 20 个小时的车程后，每个乘客都能搞到成百上千颗……
…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hurwitz. Though to hear Big Pharma tell it, there was no such thing as over-prescribing. If you want to get an idea of how out-of-hand the prescription frenzy got, take a look at John Temple's book American Pain, which describes the pill mills in South Florida. Towns in Appalachia used to send charter buses to these pharmacies. After a 12-20 hour bus ride, each passenger would pick up hundreds or thousands of…
……Marc Bowden 写的《His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire》；Ryan Holiday 写的《Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator》；Sam Quinones 写的《Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic》；John Temple 写的《American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic》；Ira Levin 写的《Rosemary's Baby》；《The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922》……
…His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire (by Marc Bowden). Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (Ryan Holiday). Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Sam Quinones). American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic (John Temple). Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin). The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922…