Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis | 誠品線上

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis

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內容簡介 直擊美國鴉片藥癮危機，向沉默抗毒先鋒致敬當新冠疫情成為媒體焦點，美國鴉片類藥癮危機不但未曾減緩，反而愈演愈烈。獲獎記者梅西以《毒疫》揭露鴉片類藥癮危機之後，前進重災區向第一線英雄致敬。這些抗毒勇士來自各行各業，其中有不懼牢嶽之災，為街友、毒癮者提供緊急救護的滅害主義人士，也有堅持向始作俑者普渡製藥和薩克勒家族究責的社會運動者。即使資源少得可憐，他們從未退卻。A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis. From the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick (inspiration for the Peabody Award-winning Hulu limited series) and Factory Man.Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. As pending court battles against opioid makers, distributors, and retailers drag on, addiction rates have soared to record-breaking levels during the COVID pandemic, illustrating the critical need for leadership, urgency, and change. Meanwhile, there is scant consensus between law enforcement and medical leaders, nor an understanding of how to truly scale the programs that are out there, working at the ragged edge of capacity and actually saving lives.Distilling this massive, unprecedented national health crisis down to its character-driven emotional core as only she can, Beth Macy takes us into the country’s hardest hit places to witness the devastating personal costs that one-third of America's families are now being forced to shoulder. Here we meet the ordinary people fighting for the least of us with the fewest resources, from harm reductionists risking arrest to bring lifesaving care to the homeless and addicted to the activists and bereaved families pushing to hold Purdue and the Sackler family accountable. These heroes come from all walks of life; what they have in common is an up-close and personal understanding of addiction that refuses to stigmatize—and therefore abandon—people who use drugs, as big pharma execs and many politicians are all too ready to do. Like the treatment innovators she profiles, Beth Macy meets the opioid crisis where it is—not where we think it should be or wish it was. Bearing witness with clear eyes, intrepid curiosity, and unfailing empathy, she brings us the crucial next installment in the story of the defining disaster of our era, one that touches every single one of us, whether directly or indirectly. A complex story of public health, big pharma, dark money, politics, race, and class that is by turns harrowing and heartening, infuriating and inspiring, Raising Lazarus is a must-read for all Americans."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Beth Macy Beth Macy is a Virginia-based journalist, the author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, and an executive producer and cowriter on Hulu's Peabody Award-winning ""Dopesick"" series.

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