Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. From the introduction of Ox圜ontin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. You can read this before Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.īeth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America written by Beth Macy which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

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