Dopesick (book) - Wikipedia Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America is a 2018 non-fiction book by American author Beth Macy The book covers the origin and evolution of the opioid epidemic in the United States beginning primarily with the 1996 release of the drug OxyContin , and examines its effects on small town America and the Appalachian
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that . . . 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
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that . . . 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
Dopesick Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America is a 2018 nonfiction book in which journalist Beth Macy describes how a liberal prescription policy for opioid drugs like OxyContin led to a heroin epidemic in rural Appalachia and adjacent suburban communities
Summary and Reviews of Dopesick by Beth Macy - BookBrowse In Dopesick, Beth Macy describes a rural America in which opioid abuse is 50% higher than in urban areas Undereducation, unemployment, a disability culture, and destabilization of rural economies have created mental stress and anxiety and the behaviors to cope with that
‘Dopesick’ Traces the Opioid Crisis, From Beginning to Blow Up Fewer than 50 pages into Beth Macy’s “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America,” one of the many opioid users she talks to — this one a mother in Virginia —
Unveiling the Impact: “Dopesick” by Beth Macy – A Powerful # . . . Through firsthand accounts and expert analysis, Macy exposes the stark reality of addiction as a disease, not a moral failing, and calls for a compassionate and evidence-based approach to treatment The term “dope sick” is slang for opiate withdrawal symptoms
Dopesick Summary - eNotes. com Dopesick is a 2018 work of investigative journalism about the United States opioid crisis Beth Macy traces how the overprescription of OxyContin, a powerfully addictive painkiller manufactured