![]() ![]() ![]() Dopesick goes to the heart of one of the most urgent problems of our time' * The Tablet * Essential to understanding not just the epidemic of opioid addiction and death, but also how America and Big Pharma work. A timely and necessary read' * Booklist * Beth Macy's powerful work of reportage. Forceful and comprehensive' * Publishers Weekly * A crucial and many-faceted look at a still-unfolding national crisis. Dopesick is another deep - and deeply needed - look into the troubled soul of America - Tom Hanks An urgent, eye-opening look at a problem that promises to grow much worse in the face of inaction and indifference * Kirkus Reviews * Macy potently mixes statistics and hard data with tragic stories of individual sufferers, as well as those who love and attempt to treat them. Macy follows one specific drug through the range of problems it has caused, the people it has hurt, the difficulties in fighting it and the glimmers of hope that remain' - Janet Maslin, New York Times Beth Macy seeks the very hearts of the people who are running the long marathons of struggle and survival - of Life. ![]() The urgency of its message is compounded by the fact that as I write this, the latest figures show the number of deaths in England and Wales due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose by 29 per cent in 2017' * The Times * Essential reading. ![]()
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