We owe her a great debt.”- Anne Case and Angus Deaton, New York Times bestselling authors of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Through her, the horrors of opioids are better known but, as this update makes clear, the suffering goes on. She brings great humanity and unparalleled storytelling to her work. “Beth Macy is America’s indispensable guide to the opioid epidemic. This is potent, essential storytelling and a much-needed reminder of our common humanity that points, ultimately, towards hope.”- Jessica Bruder, author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century Her clear-sighted, deeply humane reporting takes readers to the front lines of the opioid crisis, where a grassroots network of brave activists work to defy stigma, save lives and hold power to account in the long shadow of the Sackler dynasty. They are shifting the rightful place of shame from drug users to drugmakers.”- Evan Osnos, New York Times bestselling author of Wildland This book is a force of inspiration that will make you believe not in miracles but in work – the sheer innovative, determined, empathic work of ordinary Americans. “ Raising Lazarus confirms Beth Macy’s status as America’s nonfiction laureate of the opioid crisis. Unlike so many laws, court decisions and news stories, Raising Lazarus does right by the victims of the opioid crisis.”- Sarah Smarsh, New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “Macy brings her empathetic reporter’s craft to the oft-ignored problem solvers on the ground those who, as Macy writes, didn’t wait around for justice. Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain In that respect, this is a surprisingly hopeful book, the tale of a catastrophic crisis, but also of profound compassion and the resilience of the human spirit.”

RAISING LAZARUS is a necessary companion to the urgent story she told in DOPESICK, a deeply reported, deeply moving, boots on the ground picture of what the crisis of addiction is doing to our country, and of the activists and ordinary people who are working to fight it. Beth Macy is one of the great chroniclers of how we got here and where we are headed. “When the Covid epidemic seized the headlines, America’s overdose epidemic did not go away in fact, it intensified.

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