Dopesick
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Recommendation
Award-winning journalist Beth Macy, author of Factory Man, provides a bottomlessly bleak, well-researched and compassionately told epic of heroin and opioid addiction in Virginia’s rural Appalachian mountains. A former Roanoke Times reporter, Macy watched the opioid epidemic build from ground zero – rural, poor, white communities ravaged by globalization, automation and the coal industry’s decline. She paints vivid, heartbreaking portraits of addicted people, rich and poor alike. Readers interested in crime, addiction, marketing, public policy and the long road to recovery will find Macy’s dark tale compelling.
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About the Author
Best-selling author Beth Macy also wrote Truevine and Factory Man. She has received many reporting awards and won a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard University.
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