Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Macy traces the opioid crisis from the hollers of Appalachia to the Sackler boardroom, giving the dead their names and their contexts while building an irrefutable case for corporate homicide. The drug was designed to addict, marketed to deceive, and distributed through a medical system that was itself corrupted. The families she follows lose child after child. The Sacklers kept the money.