Description: "Well into the third decade of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. While addiction rate have soared to record-breaking levels during the COVID pandemic, there is still scant consensus between law enforcement and medical leaders, nor a sense of how to scale the programs that are out there, actually saving lives but working at the ragged edge of capacity."--back cover
Review Quotes: "When the Covid epidemic seized the headlines, America's overdose epidemic did not go away; in fact, it intensified. Beth Macy is one of the great chroniclers of how we got here and where we are headed. RAISING LAZARUS is a necessary companion to the urgent story she told in DOPESICK, a deeply reported, deeply moving, boots on the ground picture of what the crisis of addiction is doing to our country, and of the activists and ordinary people who are working to fight it. In that respect, this is a surprisingly hopeful book, the tale of a catastrophic crisis, but also of profound compassion and the resilience of the human spirit."
--Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain