Dopesick

书名：DopesickDealers,Doctors,andtheDrugCompanyThatAddictedAmerica
作者：Macy,Beth
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ISBN：9780316551243
出版社：LittleBrown&Co
出版时间：2018-8-7
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：376
豆瓣评分： 7.9

书籍简介：

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：

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.

书友短评：

@ Miracle 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之类的书来说会强一点吧，想搞清楚现状的话这本书可能比较好。（不过我不喜欢这个作者的文风…结构太散，问题太多，尤其到了后期感觉是作者被事件牵着跑，能想起来的都放上来。 @ 冬天 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑美国为什么有那么多嗑药成瘾的人？以前我只知道「毒品泛滥」是因为他们接触毒品的渠道广泛，所以获取毒品相对容易。读过这本书才知道，很多药竟然就直接是医生开出的。普渡这样的医药公司会想尽一切方法组织医生度假，给他们做各种洗脑式宣传，让他们开出奥施康定(OxyContin)这种容易成瘾的止痛药，甚至要求患者每两小时吃一次。这种情况下，普通人都会吃出药瘾。这本书里写的问题几乎就是美国底层苦难的缩影。贫穷、毒品、失业、犯罪，在这些地区是解不开的死循环。他们的政治倾向又决定自己几乎得不到什么政府救助。于是这些问题就这样一代一代传下去。真的太可悲了。 @ 懒超人 很多主观的东西，不能算是好的journalistic writing。故事线刚开始还可以，后面就凌乱了。导致对普渡的讲述不清楚，人物描写得也不立体。但的确是尽力还原了opioid epidemic 死亡数字背后的人。 @ 阿蒙 RIVETING. One of the best books I read this year. @ Monica Evana 相比于Empire of Pain，这本的切入点更容易relate一点，从受到opioid crisis影响的普通人切入的叙事视角，这个写法可以说是见微知著，当然难免感觉材料组织有点乱，但是人文关怀的意味更足了一些，比较好的点是探讨了应该如何看待成瘾者以及为他们提供帮助，社会面对止痛药成瘾者态度的改变也是道阻且长 @ susie Audiobook 2023.3.10 前几年Purdue pharma的案子出结果的时候，看到过新闻。剧火的时候感觉很多人在看。但归根结底，故事焦点里的人群和地方都太远了，那些逃不出的黑暗旋涡一样的结局，一次次发生在这些边缘小城。药企医生政客法官检察官，各自有自己的角度利益，被遗忘的人只在有用的时候被想起。

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