Dopesick

Beth Macy 2018

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
addiction opioids pharma public health

Our Take

Macy follows the opioid epidemic from Purdue Pharma's boardroom to the hollowed-out towns of Appalachia. The book is furious and precise — each overdose death traced back to a marketing decision. The system is not broken; it is working exactly as designed.

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