This book consists mainly of the translation into French of a journalistic article published in The New Yorker in 2017, ‘The Family that built an empire of bread’. It is supplemented by two short articles by Frédéric Autran and Cécile BraThursl (Libération), which ‘show the daily lives of opioid dependants’, together with a postface by Hervé Le Crosnier, the publisher. The short and non-scientific format in the strict sense of the term makes it particularly difficult to trav...