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.
发表于2024-12-23
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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.
题材好看但是写得一般
评分因为母亲的原因听这本书时心很痛
评分总的来说是很好的书,既提供背景知识和思考,也有个人和家庭的遭遇,令人觉得异常悲哀。美国Opioid类药物上瘾的问题是许多因素共同作用的结果——药厂不遗余力的推销,医药界对疼痛管理的观念变化(任何疼痛都是不好的),锈带区经济衰退所带来的失业与绝望,再加上整个社会反对用药物管理成瘾,以及整体医疗资源在成瘾管理方面的匮乏,使得大多数上瘾的人得不到合理的治疗和帮助,死亡率高得惊人。司法系统的介入一方面并未真正解决问题,另一方面在很多地方使得监狱成为毒瘾患者唯一获得帮助的机构,凸显了资源和观念的不足。全书最震动我的一句话(大意)是——我们的医疗系统随意滥用镇痛剂让如此多的人成为瘾君子,而一旦他们上瘾,最需要医疗帮助的时候,我们的医疗系统却对他们关上了大门。多么讽刺。
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评分题材好看但是写得一般
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