Another book in the growing body of literature chronicling the American opioid epidemic. If you've read any other books, you'll probably know what to expect from this one. American Fix does benefit from having the author give his personal story. While many have pointed out that the author doesn't take much personal responsibility for his actions, it is important to recognize the sheer amount of effort put into increasing consumption of oxy, etc.

The author also outlines the challenges that the recovery movement currently faces, and offers some suggestions for how America can address the epidemic of addiction.

I've read a few books (and long features) on the subject, now, and while this isn't my favourite or the best, I think it's worth a look.

An important book about a very serious crisis in the USA. This book is good for professionals and lay people interested in the opioid crisis.

This book is hard hitting facts that will rip off the band aid people have been using to fix the Opioid Addiction that is killing Americans and destroying families.

Ryan Hampton has a view point unlike many other who have written or dicuses the opioid addiction because he has an addiction to Opioiod and this is his candid story as well as passion to fixing what is destroy the United States.

As a read Ryan Hampton will come off angry to the point of offending those who want to hid in the sand. Than again he has seen all side of the epidemic and witness what isn't being done. His passion can be seen as angry but it is passion to fix the problem and not hide from it.

I remember hearing as a teen Marijuana is the grate way drug but really the grate way drug is sitting in most american's homes and used all the time.

This is a must read!

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis

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Roughly 21 to 29 percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them.
Between 8 and 12 percent develop an opioid use disorder.
An estimated 4 to 6 percent who misuse prescription opioids transition to heroin.
About 80 percent of people who use heroin first misused prescription opioids
Opioid overdoses increased 30 percent from July 2016 through September 2017 in 52 areas in 45 states.
The Midwestern region saw opioid overdoses increase 70 percent from July 2016 through September 2017.
Opioid overdoses in large cities increase by 54 percent in 16 states.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher All Points Books for the advance copy of Ryan Hampton American Fix.



Thank you to Ryan Hampton for his open and candid book!

Hampton was well educated, middle class and a driven achiever when he injured his ankle and got a prescription for opioids. The drugs worked wonders--no pain, no anxiety, and highly addictive, until he gave up trying to treat the original injury and sent more and more time at pill mills and pain clinics getting new prescriptions. When the legal prescriptions got too expensive, he went the route of many--injecting heroin. Hampton is in a position to tell us about this, as well as the inside story of treatment centers (venture-capitalized profit centers, outdated treatment model, no regulatory oversight--what could go wrong?) and the marketing onslaught of Purdue Pharma. As localities debate whether to have EMTs carry narcan at public expense to revive people, it is worth reviewing how we got to this public health crisis, one which threatens rural white people, and how American concepts of illness as weakness and public services as mooching collide with catastrophic consequences.