Inside the opioid epidemic: Author Beth Macy tells the story of a crisis 


Bestselling author Beth Macy’s first book, Factory Man, told the story of a small-town Virginia factory owner fighting globalization. In Dopesick, she traces the causes and the cost of the opioid epidemic.

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