Beth Macy

American journalist and non-fiction author best known for investigative books on American industry and public health, including Factory Man and Dopesick (the latter about the U.S. opioid crisis).

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  1. 1. Raising Lazarus

    Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis

    A compassionate, investigative account of America’s overdose crisis that mixes reporting, science, and policy analysis to trace how opioids and increasingly potent synthetic drugs devastated communities, explore the failures of treatment and criminalization, and spotlight the activists, families, first responders, and health-care workers using naloxone, medication-assisted treatment, harm-reduction strategies, and legal reforms to save lives and push for a more humane, evidence-based response to addiction.

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