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Beth Macy
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Beth Macy
About this listen
A Times book of the year.
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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Critic reviews
"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)
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Opiate Crisis
Beth has investigated the opiate crisis and critically analysed how opioids medicine took over normal lives. Overall, Beth talks about history, marketing, crime and treatment package into this book.
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- Petee
- 07-10-21
Heartbreaking.
A in-depth look into how America is rotting away from the Opioid crisis.
This book reveals so much and Is truly heartbreaking.
A must read into the corruption and negligence from the top people in America.
Well done Beth Mach for shedding light onto this subject and everyone who told their story of pure heartbreak.
My Love,heart and deepest sympathies go out to everyone who’s lives this drug has ruined.
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- Enda McCALLION
- 13-12-21
Thick Giblet
This is really important. The OxyContin epidemic took some of my best friends. The TV series is fantastic. But, why O why did the author narrate her own work. This book deserves better. Needs a professional narrator. Such a shame.
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- Tracey
- 24-01-22
Heartbreaking
Heartbreaking but informative.
This book comes at the problem of heroin addiction from all angles in a no nonsense manner.
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- Claire
- 08-03-24
Makes you angry
This is a heartbreaking read, you often can't believe what you're hearing. It's just so unreal how much large companies like Purdue get away with, and continue to get away with. The narrator is clear.
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- L. Veronica
- 25-10-19
Heartbreaking and illuminating
This should be compulsory reading for everyone. The case studies humanise a very human and misunderstood problem and also lay out the underlying contradictions in treatment approaches and attitudes to addiction in general. The tendency for addicts to be criminalised and taken into the criminal justice and penal systems with devastating consequences is not unique to the US and it was interesting to see how many overlaps there are between treatment approaches globally in spite of a growing problem and little evidence that traditional criminalisation techniques work.
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- becks
- 07-01-22
A soild 5 from me.
I downloaded this after watching the TV show.
Unlike the TV this isn't as focused on the Sackler Family.
I found it a bit distressing at times and especially the epilogue.
I see some people have remarked on the narrator but I had no issue and it can be a thing which annoys me.
At the end of the book I'm firmly of the view the author needed to be the narrator.
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- Mel
- 07-04-22
Harrow but necessary
One of the more harrowing, frustrating and yet necessary books I've ever read. An illustration of the errors of politicalising of drug use and drug treatment, where an uneducated public continue down the pathway of calling for simple abstinence and religious based 12-step programmes in face of scientific evidence of a different solution.
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- Kristof
- 23-04-24
Too many facts, difficult to follow
I didn't enjoy this book. It's a collection of events and stories, a bit like a too long article in a newspaper. I struggled to follow the story and finish the book
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- Nathalie P
- 11-08-20
Interesting, but don't recommend the audiobook
This book brings to life the opioid crisis, but needs re-recording with a professional narrator.
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