Too often, those pills in people’s medicine cabinets tempt young people to sample them. That coupled with this aggressive marketing of Oxy really kind of seeded this crisis that we’re in the midst of today.” You’ve seen that chart on the wall where doctors ask patients to rate their pain and of course that’s not an objective rating. And you started hearing about pain as the fifth vital sign and if you’ve visited a hospital in the last couple of decades, you’ve seen that ‘name your pain scale’ of 1 to10. “In 1996,” she says, Purdue Pharma began marketing and selling Oxycontin, and this happened at the same time in medicine that there was this movement partially part funded by pharma companies, that we were under treating pain. Macy tells the real-life stories of hard working people who were prescribed drugs, touted as being non-addictive, who end up losing their jobs, their families and their lives. Dopesick is what addicts will do anything, to avoid becoming. The title is a haunting refrain through the Beth Macy’s new book. Former Roanoke Times Reporter, Beth Macy, wrote “Factory Man” and “True Vine.” Now, she’s out with her third book, this one, about the opioid crisis and its origins here in Virginia. A best-selling author from Roanoke has again put her journalism skills to work on a true story that reads like a novel.
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