They look like snacks on the bus - like typically tucked inside Pepperidge Farm cookie bags or Pringles cans inside of a Walmart bag. He would pay them extra - he would pay them "in heroin" as he called it - and they would sneak them back. So these young women - largely addicted women themselves - would go up. Shots - Health News Jump In Overdoses Shows Opioid Epidemic Has Worsened "My goal was to mobilize people to care about this." "The only way I could stand to write this book was to write about the people fighting back - so the families and the first responders.," she says. Macy says she herself grew up with a father who was addicted to alcohol, which made addiction a particularly difficult subject to tackle. Many users became addicted to drugs such as Ox圜ontin when the medications were prescribed for pain, and moved to heroin when it became harder to get more pills.
Macy also details the actions of executives of a pharmaceutical company that aggressively marketed opioids.
How?ĭopesick explores the lives of young heroin users and their long-suffering parents, and takes an intimate look at drug dealers and the cops, judges, doctors and health activists struggling to fight the epidemic. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dopesick Subtitle Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Author Beth Macy
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