May Bonus Review: Dopesick
Beth Macy's compelling, enraging account of the opioid crisis pulls no punches.
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
At the moment, technically, the crime is possession and distribution of opioids. Really, it’s that the entire Purdue Pharma power structure belongs in jail.
The story
As informative, immersive, and well-paced as it is, I don’t know if I can recommend a book as utterly infuriating as Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. Before y’all chose Dopesick for me to read, I had already gotten it from the library, but it took me months to finish it because I could only manage a dozen pages at a time before the urgent need to find a Sackler to kick in the nards overtook me. Before I get into it, here’s the copy from Little, Brown’s landing page for the book:
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