Dopesick

✮✮✮✮Nonfiction

May 27

Written By Repy White

Dopesick

Beth Macy

my review : ✮✮✮✮

(Not Your Average Beach Read)

This book is not the light and fluffy I’m normally reading, and I’m glad I mixed this one in. This book is incredibly disheartening, frustrating, and informative. The author, Beth Macy, does a good job of taking a complex and layered epidemic and breaking it down. The story was published in 2018, so some of the information may no longer be up to date, but the greater story is still, unfortunately, incredibly relevant. This book and subsequent show on Hulu influenced by this writing made Oxy and Heroin part of our national conversation.

Beth weaves stories of Purdue Pharma, the evolution of OxyContin, the heroin epidemic and its victims in a well told story.

I was enthralled by this heartbreaking story.

my favorite quote:

“If we reduced our prison population by twenty-five percent, that’s twenty billion dollars we could save. And if we invested half of that in treatment, we could really increase people’s likelihood of success.”