An expert, someone supposed to know better, had betrayed her trust.īooks like “Pain Killer,” by Barry Meier, a reporter for The New York Times, and “Dreamland,” by the journalist Sam Quinones, have covered the opioid crisis in detail, but they appeared before the 2016 election, when the places in the country most affected by the epidemic went for Trump. She was aware of her own choice in the matter, but her physician instructed her to double up on highly addictive narcotics. If you want a glimpse into how the opioid crisis began, the woman’s words are a good place to start. But her doctor, she assumed, was a “high-standard person, someone you’re supposed to trust and believe in.” “The doctor didn’t force me to take them,” she said of Ox圜ontin and Percocet, two powerful painkillers she was instructed to take concurrently. Fewer than 50 pages into Beth Macy’s “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America,” one of the many opioid users she talks to - this one a mother in Virginia - explains how her addiction started in the early 2000s, after routine gallbladder surgery.
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