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Beth Macy: Dopesick (2018) 4 stars

Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in …

Review of 'Dopesick' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

What a fascinating book. It has the dubious honour of being the first book I ever put on my "Didn't finish" shelf not because I didn't like it but because it was, in some ways too good.

Too scary, infuriating, upsetting and anxiety inducing for me to continue with. It's also, really sad. I do volunteer work regularly with many folks who are addicted and of course that's upsetting and stressful. (But I'm glad I can help) but reading this just put this at the top of my mind all the time.

But readers better at dealing with this than I will enjoy this I think.