Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America | Book Library

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by Beth Macy P

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (August 7, 2018)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316551244
• ISBN-13: 978-0316551243
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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The only book to fully chart the devastating opioid problems in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" ( Ny Times ) from your bestselling author and journalist who has resided through it

In this masterful work, Beth Macy requires us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus yr have trouble with opioid addiction. Coming from distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to prosperous suburbs; from disparate towns to once-idyllic farm villages; that is a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for such a long time and become so firmly entrenched.

Start with a single supplier who lands in a tiny Virginia town and sets about turning high college football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy efforts to resolve a grieving single mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. Coming from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the identical 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, prison, and death.

Through unsparing, yet seriously human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Us citizens across geographic and school lines is opioid medicine abuse. However in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing dependancy to build an improved future for themselves and their families.

"Everyone should read Beth Macy's story of the United states opioid epidemic" -- Teacher Anne C Case, Teacher Emeritus at Princeton College and Sir Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

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