Drug Dealer, MD

"A thought-provoking study that all healthcare professionals and patients should read."

"... a story with mythic resonance."

""... excellent... It’s a short book, concisely written, giving plenty of examples of patients’ stories while at the same time showing trends in policy and national practice.""

"Drug Dealer, MD offers a fresh, comprehensive perspective on addiction and prescription drugs. The patient narratives provide compassionate, albeit sometimes extreme, examples of how the medical field has failed patients, while the data provide the facts needed to prove that this truly is a system failure rather than any one person’s fault. This thought-provoking book should be a must-read for medical trainees, providers, and health policy leaders working at the forefront of addressing the prescription drug epidemic."

"Anna Lembke sheds light on the rise of prescription drug addiction in the USA, fuelled in part by the actions of doctors and the structure of the US healthcare system."

"... The book is written in a clear, easy-to-read style with lay readers in mind."

"... once I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down."

"... the most important medical book of the decade."

"As far as I am concerned, "Drug Dealer, M.D.," in less than 200 unassuming, readable, and carefully referenced pages, may be the most important medical book of the decade for finally getting the story of this epidemic exactly right... every doctor and concerned citizen can take a first step in the right direction by reading Anna Lembke’s book."

"A phenomenal read."

"... substantial and satisfying... a lucid and fluid distillation of how large pharmaceutical companies capitalized on and shaped an era in which ‘doctors are expected not just to lessen pain, but to eliminate it altogether’ and ‘changing brain chemistry’ has become "the new way to normalize differences.""

"... excellent..."

"The best summary around of the perils of owning a prescription pad."

"A unique and appealing look at the prescription opioid epidemic. Lembke's broad contextual discussion of the changing history of organized medicine's approach to pain is fascinating."

"Lembke's novel viewpoint, brilliant synthesis of information, and use of patient stories bring the text to life."

"Dr. Lembke is a fearless, authentic voice on the over-prescription of addictive painkillers and its terrible public health consequences.  Drug Dealer, MD brings together her experience as a physician and her wisdom as a public policy analyst to create a must-read book for anyone who is grappling with America's ongoing opioid addiction and overdose crisis."