In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle With Opioids

"This book is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks the opioid crisis can’t touch them. After a motorcycle accident that nearly took off his foot, Johns Hopkins bioethicist Travis Rieder was prescribed large doses of painkillers. But when he tried to wean himself off, he experienced severe withdrawal and found that his doctors didn’t have answers for him. Though Rieder eventually managed to stop taking the meds, the experience prompted him to write In Pain. It’s part memoir, part indictment of the doctors and pharmaceutical companies that push painkillers without addressing the addiction issues that come with them."