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Note to Readers: This is a fan-based summary and analysis on Beth Macy's Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. This is meant to enhance your original reading experience, not supplement it. We urge you to pick up this ground breaking book here: https: //amzn.to/2NcD266
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy is a journalistic, nonfiction work on the heroin epidemic that overtook . Virginia in the 2000s through today. Through hours of research and scores of interviews, Macy explains the history of the epidemic from the time OxyContin arrived on the scene until it became the worst drug epidemic in modern American history.
Throughout the work, Macy introduces readers to scores of parents who have lost their children to death by overdose or whose children are serving jail time for drug-related offenses. Readers hear how their children succumbed to opioid abuse and how the families tried to get them the help they needed and often failed.
Additionally, Macy introduces readers to a number of medical professionals who speak against the dangers of overprescribing opioids and the problems with rehabilitation clinics. The author also shares the opinions of those working on the side of the law to bring an end to rampant drug abuse in their communities.
The novel works to advocate for better addiction treatment, as well as healthcare and criminal justice reform.
"As OxyContin hit the market, drug advertising surged from $360 million in 1995 to $1.3 million in 1998 with pharmaceutical companies giving doctors tons of freebies. Purdue Pharma salesmen pushed Oxy on doctors by suggesting it was safe for noncancer patients with pain."
In this detailed summary and analysis of Dopsick by Beth Macy, you'll learn the hard facts, like:
- Who created the "tsunami" of misery in Woodstock, Virginia, and how.
- The painful mental and physical sensations that drives users to keep using.
- The arrival of Oxycontin, and how it has miserably affected our medical system.
And much more about this public health emergency!
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