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Get the Summary of Beth Macy's Dopesick in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Dopesick by Beth Macy takes a look at the central point of the opioid crisis in the United States. Opioid addiction has been a struggle for Americans for over twenty years. Macy takes the reader through the history of the opioid addiction crisis. She tells the stories of Americans whose lives have been greatly...
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Summary of Beth Macy's Dopesick details the explosion of OxyContin use in Appalachia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the widespread heroin addiction that ensued when medical providers began restricting access to prescription opioids in the late 2000s and 2010s. Journalist and author Beth Macy, who once worked as a reporter in Roanoke, Virginia, traces the efforts of local activists, doctors, law enforcement officials, and parents to combat opioid dependence......
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In her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts. Nearly a decade into...
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Stürzte täglich ein Flugzeug ab, würde man auch etwas tun, oder?
In eine Boeing 787 passen ungefähr 250 Menschen. Genauso viele Menschen sterben in den USA täglich an Opioiden, also an Schmerzmitteln wie etwa Oxycodon, Vicodin oder Fentanyl. In der Altersgruppe der unter 50-Jährigen stellt die Überdosierung von Schmerzmitteln oder Drogen mittlerweile die häufigste Todesursache dar, noch vor Waffengewalt oder Verkehrsunfällen. Viele der
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"A feral child finds a family. An old bottle washes up with a note inside. A boy's stuffed elephant flies out the car window. Over two decades, Lane DeGregory's stories of ordinary people struggling with love and loss, pain and perseverance, have earned her a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and enhanced the Tampa Bay (formerly St. Petersburg) Times's reputation for publishing pioneering literary nonfiction. DeGregory has also built a worldwide...
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