Beth Macy on DOPESICK
Poured Over
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Dopstick - The Story of Heroin and the Heroin Crisis
Dopstick was published in 20 18, which at this point, were looking at three years ago. The human cost is really, in some ways, hard to measure. These are rural communities. They've been decimated by globilization and automation. Doctors in these communities have fighting opiod perma-abuse since the late nineties. It's not drugs, it's the abuse that's the issue with addiction. And if the reader could leave the story and have grasped that they're not doing it just to be lazy, no good trying to get high. People that they literally have this disease of the brain,. That, for many of them, if it wasn't a prescription
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