Macy reports on the people, often personally motivated and detached from any official policy response, whose central purpose is to get victims’ voices heard and to achieve accountability from companies and executives behind the flood of opioids, including Purdue Pharma and the members of the Sackler family, in the initial wave of the crisis. “We now have a generation of drug users that started with heroin and fentanyl.” “At this point, too much attention is focused on stemming the oversupply of prescription opioids,” Macy writes. Raising Lazarus is more personal, and looks more closely at what can be done to solve the opioid abuse mess, even as it morphs away from the pharmaceutical industry mis-marketing that started it. It became the touchstone account of a sprawling crisis of corporate malfeasance and regulatory mismanagement that largely eluded the criminal justice system despite killing about a million people. Macy’s previous book, Dopesick, charted the rise of prescription painkillers through the 1990s and early 2000s.
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