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A review by elizabethtye
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
4.0
Dopesick is a good nonfiction read that covers why so many Americans are dying from drugs. Beth Macy covers how Oxycontin made it to the heart of Appalachia, causing overdoses and death. She talks about Pardue Pharma and their major sales push for selling scripts of Oxy. The pills led to harder opioids and other drugs. She also covers the law enforcement side of the drug epidemic. Some parts of the book were kind of slow and overdone. Overall, the book was eye-opening and well-written.