ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Source #1:

How Do We Stop the Opioid Epidemic?,

www.poison.org/articles/stopping-the-opioid-epidemic-182.

This article is important to my paper because it shows how Opioids started and how addictive it is. It explains how organizations are helping the epidemic and fighting for the people addicted. This article is important to my research because it explains how many people are addicted and what will help them.

Source #2:

Lyapustina, Tatyana. “The Prescription Opioid Addiction and Abuse Epidemic: How It

Happened and What We Can Do about It.” Pharmaceutical Journal, 11 June 2015,www. pharmaceutical-journal.com/opinion/comment/the-prescription-opioid-addic tion-and-abu se-epidemic-how-it-happened-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/20068579.article?firstPass=false.

This article is helpful because it shows the signs of opioid addiction and helps me understand how people got hooked. It helps answer a lot of simple questions that were needed to be answered. This article progressed my research by helping me understand how the problem began, and also how the problem progressed.

Source #3:

Santhanam, Laura. “What Purdue Pharma's Settlement with Oklahoma Means for the Opioid

Crisis.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 26 Mar. 2019, www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ what-purdue-pharmas-settlement-with-oklahoma-means-for-the-opioid-crisis.

This article mainly covered the lawsuit on Purdue Pharma. This article also helped show how the epidemic became a pharmaceutical issue. It helped me understand how mainstream the problem is and how Purdue Pharma made the problem colossal. The outcome pf the lawsuit could help millions of people.

Source #4:

“The Next Gateway Drug: How Prescription Drugs Have Started a New...” DISA

Global Solutions, 26 Mar. 2018, disa.com/blog/the-next-gateway-drug-how-prescription -drugs-have-started-a-new-epidemic.

This source helped a lot because it showed how the opioid epidemic began and all the steps behind it. It also explains the science and business side of opioids. It put a perspective on how much money these companies are actually making. This is one of these most informative article i have read on opioids or anything relative.

Source #5:

Zezima, Katie, and Lenny Bernstein. “Lawsuit Claims Sackler Family Disregarded Safety,

Opioid Addiction in Purdue Push to Profit from OxyContin.” The Washington Post, WP

Company, 1 Feb. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/national/lawsuit-claims-sackler-family

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This article was helpful because it went through full details on most of the opioid cases with pharmaceuticals. It was interesting learning how all of these companies do things for money. It helped me realize how bad the world is. This article just helped me understand everything with the Purdue case.