6/26/2023 0 Comments Dopesick macy![]() There was no way I could do another book on. What comes through most clearly from Dopesica is that we have to undo the vast transfer of wealth from poor and middle-class Americans to the rich. When Beth Macy finished her 2018 book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, she was done with the subject. ![]() Other than Purdue Pharma, the only figures on whom she specifically pins responsibility for overdose deaths in the region are two black heroin dealers. ![]() Even Macy has a hard time grasping this fact, perhaps because of the curious racial bias that deforms her narrative. The simple truth doesn’t sit well with us: today, even for white people, selling drugs pays better than working. But it has been much harder to see when the unemployed in question are white. You can clear a few grand a month as a low-level distributor, even more if you don’t dip into the product yourself. ![]() Where the factories and mines have closed down and the safety net, after years of budget cutting, is in tatters, selling drugs is a way to get by. Despite her fidelity to the conventional narratives-poor white despair, evil Big Pharma-what emerges from Macy’s detailed account is a radically different view of the opioid epidemic. ![]()
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