The Waveform Issue 23–Dopesick

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Beth Macy

Beth Macy is a journalist who has written with compassion about the opioid crisis in America. In this week’s episode of The Glo Podcast, she shares her journey into a new understanding of addiction.

We’ve been taught by the war on drugs that drug users are bad. They must go to jail. To deliver care to these people who are suffering, we had to put that war on drug mentality aside. Even for me, I certainly had some biases of my own that I had to unravel as I’ve been I’ve been working on this topic now for 10 years.

— Beth Macy

A million Americans have died from drug overdoses, and only 12% of addicted Americans have received treatment. Beth gives the inside view on how opioid manufacturers influenced and bribed drug reps and doctors to get them to prescribe Oxycontin and Fentanyl. Doctors didn’t tell patients how addicting these drugs are. She also offers some…