This week’s first chapter is adult nonfiction Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy. Macy plunges the reader into this country’s more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction. However, through all of the greed, loss, and pain, Macy finds hope in the American spirit of resiliency and determination. This book is for adults and contains adult language and situations.

You can find copies of Dopesick here. 

This episode was read by Churchville Branch Library manager, Ali. Dopesick was written by Beth Macy and published in 2018 by Little, Brown, and Company.