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American Overdose

August 17, 2019 Tagged With: Beth Macy, book review, Dopesick, nonfiction, opioid epidemic

The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.” But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the U.S. into consuming more than 80 percent of the world’s opioid painkillers. Read the Full Story >>

America’s Opioid Killing Fields

November 30, 2018 Tagged With: Beth Macy, book review, Dopesick, nonfiction, opioid epidemic, substance use disorder

Award-winning journalist Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America comes as a timely, in-depth look at America’s opioid crisis that tells the stories of its victims and traces the social and economic roots of the epidemic. Read the Full Story >>

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