Dopesick

Beth Macy chronicles the devastating spread of opioid addiction from Appalachian Virginia outward through American communities, from Purdue Pharma's deliberate deception of prescribers to the families and first responders struggling to contain a man-made epidemic. The book centres the human toll of individual lives destroyed while simultaneously indicting the corporate, regulatory and medical failures that produced the crisis.

ISBN 9780316426411 · Little, Brown & Company · 2018