It was a great book that detailed the origins of the opioid crisis. The author, who is based in Southwestern Virginia, traces the crisis back to people in the region who worked hard physical labor and suffered from chronic pain, leading them to be prescribed oxycontin, which eventually led them to heroin when they could no longer get prescriptions.
This is one of the things a fantastic author, Beth Macy, she wrote such a great book called Dope Sick on the origins of this crisis.
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It was a great book that detailed the origins of the opioid crisis. The author, who is based in Southwestern Virginia, traces the crisis back to people in the region who worked hard physical labor and suffered from chronic pain, leading them to be prescribed oxycontin, which eventually led them to heroin when they could no longer get prescriptions.
This is one of the things a fantastic author, Beth Macy, she wrote such a great book called Dope Sick on the origins of this crisis.
She's based down in Southwestern Virginia around Roanoke, that whole area has been hit so incredibly hard as has Kentucky.
All of Appalachia has been hit so incredibly hard.
And she really traces it back to people who were doing hard physical labor and they had terrible chronic pain.
And so you get a prescription for oxy. And then once that is once the doctor will no longer prescribe, well, that's actually when you really get into trouble and when you turn to the street and when you end up on heroin.