Category:
General Nonfiction
Regular worth:
$11.99
Deal worth:
$3.99
Deal begins:
January 20, 2023
Deal ends:
January 20, 2023
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 dwelling rooms of Americans.
In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a nationwide drama that has unfolded over 20 years. From the labs and advertising departments of massive pharma to native physician’s workplaces; rich suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm cities; the unfold of opioid dependancy follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this disaster has endured for thus lengthy and grow to be so firmly entrenched.
Beginning with a single vendor who lands in a small Virginia city and units about turning highschool soccer stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy units out to reply a grieving mom’s question-why her solely son died-and comes away with a gripping, unputdownable story of greed and want. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy investigates the highly effective forces that led America’s docs and sufferers to embrace a medical tradition the place overtreatment with painkillers grew to become the norm. In a number of the similar communities featured in her bestselling ebook Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers each to numb the ache of joblessness and pay their payments, whereas privileged teenagers commerce tablets in cul-de-sacs, and even highschool standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and demise.
Through unsparing, compelling, and unforgettably humane portraits of households and first responders decided to ameliorate this epidemic, every side of the disaster comes into focus. In these politically fragmented instances, Beth Macy exhibits that one factor uniting Americans throughout geographic, partisan, and sophistication traces is opioid drug abuse. But even within the midst of dual crises in drug abuse and healthcare, Macy finds purpose to hope and ample indicators of the spirit and tenacity which might be serving to the numerous unusual individuals ensnared by dependancy construct a greater future for themselves, their households, and their communities.
“An impressive feat of journalism, monumental in scope and urgent in its implications.” — Jennifer Latson, The Boston Globe
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