Reviewed books: "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America" by Beth Macy & "Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic" by Barry Meier
Dope-wasted in Lee County, Virginia, a disconsolate farmer told his physician that the powerful prescription drug OxyContin had destroyed his life. He had lost everything. Another Virginian, an unemployed miner, admitted OxyContin had become more important than friends, family, children or church: “It became my god.” ...