6/1/2023 0 Comments Finding tess beth macy![]() In Dopesick, Macy brings clarity to what she describes as the “perfect storm” that created one of the most pressing health emergencies the United States has ever faced. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently estimated that 72,000 people in the United States died after taking drugs in 2017, up from roughly 15,000 two decades earlier. The rich kids were crashing alongside the poor kids on friends’ couches (the lucky ones, anyway), all of them cowering before the morphine molecule and beholden to its spell. But the largest dealers weren’t twice-convicted felons with elaborate dope-cutting schemes, multiple cars, and hired mules. ![]() ![]() As veteran Virginia journalist Beth Macy writes in her new book, Dopesick:īy 2014, the suburban heroin-dealing scene had become entrenched in Roanoke’s McMansion subdivisions and poor neighborhoods alike. ![]() THE OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC that the United States struggles with today is different from any drug problem the country has experienced before. ![]()
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