North America’s Drug War: First Wave: The Prescription Trap
The deadliest drug epidemic in North American history didn't begin on the streets.
It began in the doctor's office.
In the 1990s, Purdue Pharma unleashed OxyContin - marketed as a miracle pill for pain, "safe" and "non-addictive." Doctors trusted it. Patients trusted their doctors. And within a decade, entire communities across the United States and Canada were trapped in an epidemic built on lies.
The Prescription Trap is the explosive true story of the first wave of the opioid crisis. From coal towns in Appalachia to northern reserves in Ontario, from courtroom battles to corporate boardrooms, it exposes how one pill reshaped a continent. Inside are the human stories too often buried beneath statistics: teenagers gone after dental surgery, parents overdosing in front of their children, and whistleblowers who risked everything to sound the alarm.
Raw, relentless, and unflinching, this book uncovers how trust was weaponized, how pain became profit, and how a pharmaceutical empire engineered addiction on a national scale.
This is not the story of fentanyl. Not yet.
This is where it began. The prescription trap was the spark.
The fire it lit still burns.
The Prescription Trap is the first book in a groundbreaking four-part series charting the four deadly waves of the opioid epidemic.
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