![]() ![]() DuPont, president of the Institute for Behavior and Health and author of Chemical Slavery: Understanding Addiction and Stopping the Drug Epidemic Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic Ann Marlowe, author of How to Stop Time: Heroin From A to Z Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction Perri Peltz, the director of HBO’s Warning: This Drug May Kill You Eve Marson, the director of Dr. To find that out, we polled a variety of experts on the books to read to better understand this crisis. That kind of scale can’t and really shouldn’t be ignored, but it’s obviously not the whole story. These two new releases are the latest in a new (and distressing) canon of writing about an epidemic - “the epidemic of epidemics,” according to Michael Brumage, executive health director at Charleston Health Department - that is predicted to claim over 500,000 lives in the next ten years. ![]() ![]() The second was Cherry, a novel that tells the story of an Army medic turned heroin addict turned bank robber in Cleveland, Ohio. Last month, two books that each shed light on America’s ever-widening opioid epidemic were published: Dopesick, by journalist Beth Macy, which provides a scrupulously reported explanation of the drug’s history, the influence of corporate greed on the drug’s proliferation, and interviews with addicts and their families. ![]()
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