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Beth Macy discusses her book, "Dopesick", at Politics and Prose on 8/9/18. In 2016 opioids killed an average of 10.3 people per 100,000 in this country. Today, there are some 2.6 million people addicted to opiates nationwide, and overdoses are the leading cause of death for those under age 50. In her compassionate and revelatory investigation of the country’s twenty-plus year opioid crisis, Macy gives these statistics meaning by telling the stories of hard-hit western Virginia communities. Revisiting some of the places that figured in Factory Man, her study of the socio-economic effects of outsourcing labor, Macy traces the combined roles of joblessness, aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies, regulatory laxness, and an increasingly medicalized culture to explain how so many become so quickly addicted to painkillers like OxyContin, and why the addiction is so hard to break. Macy is in conversation with Dan Vergano, science reporter at BuzzFeed News https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9... Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the web at http://www.politics-prose.com/ Produced by Tom Warren