Instead, the struggle to get bupe is, for many people, far more difficult than just relapsing to street drugs. You might think a treatment like this would be offered enthusiastically in every community in America. The use of bupe in tandem with other forms of treatment, including counseling and job and housing assistance, have helped countless users recover, Macy writes. But Macy also turns her attention to people who are trying to do something about addiction and overdose deaths - heroes you never heard of who are saving lives one at a time. The story of Purdue, the Sacklers and the massive legal attempt to hold them responsible continues in this book.
In “Raising Lazarus,” Macy shifts the perspective somewhat.
One spotlighted the lives of individual victims of overdose and the devastated families they left behind the other related how the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue, not only developed Ox圜ontin but created a marketing method that essentially peddled the drug as a safe, nonaddictive painkiller - and relentlessly targeted sales at communities vulnerable to it. In “Dopesick,” Macy wove together two major story lines. (Macy was involved with the show as a writer and executive producer.) Macy laid out that deadly connection in her deeply reported 2018 book, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.” The book was the source for the 2021 Hulu miniseries “Dopesick,” which was nominated for multiple Emmys and won one for Michael Keaton for best lead actor. Much of the enormous growth in those numbers can be traced to one legal opioid, Ox圜ontin, and the company that makes it, Purdue Pharma. The overwhelming majority of those overdose deaths are caused by opioids, both legal and illegal. They outnumber gunshot deaths and car crash deaths combined. Overdose deaths affect Americans at every income and educational level, of every race, in every part of the country.
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