作者：Macy,Beth
出版社：LittleBrown&Co
副标题：Dealers,Doctors,andtheDrugCompanyThatAddictedAmerica
出版年：2018-8-7
页数：376
定价：GBP21.50
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780316551243
内容简介
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In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death.
Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families.
作者简介
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Beth Macy is a journalist who writes about outsiders and underdogs. Her writing has won more than a dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and the 2013 J. Anthony Lukas Word-in-Progress award for “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — and Helped Save an American Town,” published by Little, Brown and Company in July 2014. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia, with her husband Tom, her sons, and rescue mutts Mavis and Charley.
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Roanoke.. 有一种支持老乡作品的感觉
补码。
加一颗星给题材本身，文笔太差了。
美国现在还在重蹈覆辙
视角很棒。这本书的灵感来自于一个千万人都迫切想要答案的问题：为什么一种在市场上流行、FDA和相当部分的医生群体都认可、并且是以减轻疼痛为目的的正规药物会变成收割万千性命的罪魁祸首？【或者：Where does the thin line between painkillers and addictive drugs lie？】我觉得这本书的“实用性”比较其他探究致瘾物历史or policy之类的书…
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