“Macy brings her empathetic reporter’s craft to the oft-ignored problem solvers on the ground those who, as Macy writes, didn’t wait around for justice. Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain In that respect, this is a surprisingly hopeful book, the tale of a catastrophic crisis, but also of profound compassion and the resilience of the human spirit.”
RAISING LAZARUS is a necessary companion to the urgent story she told in DOPESICK, a deeply reported, deeply moving, boots on the ground picture of what the crisis of addiction is doing to our country, and of the activists and ordinary people who are working to fight it. Beth Macy is one of the great chroniclers of how we got here and where we are headed. “When the Covid epidemic seized the headlines, America’s overdose epidemic did not go away in fact, it intensified.
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