![]() ![]() ![]() 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.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 endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" ( New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it. ![]()
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