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An unforgettable portrait of the devastating opioid crisis in America from a New York Times bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it.

A portrait of the devastating opioid crisis in America from a New York Times bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it.

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR.

´A shocking investigation ... [ Dopesick ] is essential´ The Times .
´Shifting effortlessly between the socio-political and the personal, Macy weaves a complex tale that unfolds with all the pace of a thriller´ Observer .
´ Dopesick is a deep - and deeply needed - look into the troubled soul of America´ Tom Hanks.
´ Dopesick goes to the heart of one of the most urgent problems of our time´ The Tablet .

Beth Macy reveals the disturbing truth behind America´s opioid crisis and explains how a nation has become enslaved to prescription drugs.

This powerful and moving story explains how a large corporation, Purdue, encouraged small town doctors to prescribe OxyContin to a country already awash in painkillers. The drug´s dangerously addictive nature was hidden, whilst many used it as an escape, to numb the pain of of joblessness and the need to pay the bills. Macy tries to answer a grieving mother´s question - why her only son died - and comes away with a harrowing tale of greed and need.

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´A shocking investigation ... [ Dopesick ] is essential. The urgency of its message is compounded by the fact that as I write this, the latest figures show the number of deaths in England and Wales due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose by 29 per cent in 2017´ The Times .

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Macy, Beth
Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man . Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard.

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