
Do No Harm
The Opioid Epidemic is the worst man-made epidemic in the history of our nation. More people die each year from an opioid overdose than in automobile accidents. The statistics are staggering. Do No Harm spotlights experts, journalists, and public health crusaders who are combating the special interests of Big Pharma and informing the world on how an aggressive pharmaceutical mass marketing campaign for the new drug OxyContin misled doctors and the public into our current crisis of death and addiction.
Wiland highlights the stories of those hit hardest by prescription opioid addiction and overdose death, and sheds light on how whole communities have been ravaged by the spread of addiction. Despite regional health experts, local government, law enforcement, journalists, and the DEA’s efforts to combat the epidemic, people continue to die at an alarming rate from prescription drug overdoses.
The chapters of this book chronical this epidemic in all its complexity from many perspective including the plight of the millions of Americans who suffer from opioid addiction. People, young and old on the rocky road to recovery, tell their harrowing stories, current victories, and on-going struggles with the disease.
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Book details
- Author
- Harry Wiland
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Social Science › Sociology
Psychology › Psychopathology › Addiction
Social Science › Disease & Health Issues - Topics
- opioid epidemic · OxyContin · Big Pharma · addiction · overdose · prescription drug crisis · public health · pharmaceutical industry
- ISBN-13
- 9781684423231 (Paperback)9781684423248 (Hardcover)
About the author
HARRY WILAND is a documentary director, public television producer, and co-executive producer and director of the PBS documentary series Do No Harm: The Opioid Epidemic. He is the author of Do No Harm: The Opioid Epidemic.
Wiland has won six Emmy Awards for investigative journalism and was elected an Ashoka Lifetime Fellow in 2006. He holds a degree in Bio-Chemistry from Brooklyn College and an MFA in Film & Television from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
When not writing, Wiland serves as Co-President and Co-CEO of the Media Policy Center, which he co-founded in Santa Monica, California in 2002, drawing on over 30 years of producing public television and multimedia projects.
Harry lives in Venice, California.





