![]() ![]() Dopesick is far deeper, rawer and more personal than I’m usually comfortable with. Her previous books - Factory Man and Truevine - prove this. ![]() She’s always a brilliant story reteller, somehow able to get deeper into lives than most of us would be brave enough to consider. Both of these communities factor enormously in the gripping, gritty reporting Macy does here. I grew up in Wise County, VA, and have lived in Roanoke for 28 years now. I’m confident I would feel the same way about this book if I’d never met her. Beth Macy is a good friend of my family and me. Stumbling over words, she sounds like an unrehearsed reader in church trying to read a Biblical passage with particularly unpronounceable family and place names.Įye opening. Additionally, Beth Macy may be a good writer, but she is a terrible and distracting narrator. I'm sorry he hasn't received as much attention for his good work. Beth Macy's book is getting a lot of press right now, and it's worthy of the press, but Sam Quinones published his book at the outset of this epidemic and gives a far more in-depth report of its complete takeover. Quinones not only tells the whole story of falsely-interpreted medical studies that led to the "statistics" used by big pharma to say that opiods weren't addictive he also traces the production of heroin to Mexican villages and examines its distribution in the United States. For a more comprehensive, investigative journalistic account, I recommend Dreamland, by Sam Quinones. It is very focused on big pharma and individual stories, however. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.ĭopesick is good, interesting, and compelling. "An impressive feat of journalism, monumental in scope and urgent in its implications."-Jennifer Latson, The Boston Globe But even in the midst of twin crises in drug abuse and healthcare, Macy finds reason to hope and ample signs of the spirit and tenacity that are helping the countless ordinary people ensnared by addiction build a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows that one thing uniting Americans across geographic, partisan, and class lines is opioid drug abuse. Through unsparing, compelling, and unforgettably humane portraits of families and first responders determined to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In some of the same communities featured in her best-selling 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 investigates the powerful forces that led America's doctors and patients to embrace a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor's offices wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.īeginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy sets out to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a gripping, binge-worthy story of greed and need. In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" ( New York Times )-from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans. A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy. ![]()
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