![]() ![]() ![]() 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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