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

This Amazon Best Book of August 2018 ranks #7 among hardback non-fiction books in the latest New York Times bestseller lists. It is also a Publishers Weekly Fall 2018 Adult Announcement issue top ten forthcoming book in the Politics and Current Events category. Beth Macy’s work as a newspaper reporter in Roanoke and her first two books, Truevine and Factory Man, set the stage for the dramatic success of this book which tells the story of who really are the conspirators who addicted America and the heroes who have valiantly struggled against it. She covers not only her Virginia metropolitan area but the coalfields to the south and west where the epidemic of gateway prescription drugs was first targeted by Big Pharma. "A harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency...a masterwork of narrative journalism, interlacing stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference."―Jessica Bruder. "An impressive feat o