Dopesick - Beth Macy
Category: Crime
Narrator: Beth Macy
Tags: Crime, Documentary, History, Adults
In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of Americas 20-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; its a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched., Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mothers question - why her only son died - and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her best-selling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while pri
