Beth Macy on DOPESICK
America\u2019s opioid crisis shows no signs of slowing down, and if you want to know\xa0how we got where we are, Beth Macy\u2019s 2018 bestseller\xa0Dopesick\xa0is coming to Hulu as a limited series on October 13th, produced by Danny Strong (Game Change\xa0and\xa0Recall), Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale), director Barry Levinson, actor Michael Keaton and Beth herself, among others. Beth joins us on the show to talk about the screen adaptation of her powerful book\u2014and what she learned writing for the screen for the first time\u2014how the community she\u2019s covered is responding, and more, including a sneak peak of her next book,\xa0Raising Lazarus: Hope and Justice in the Future of America\u2019s Overdose Crisis.\xa0Featured books:\xa0Dopesick\xa0by Beth Macy,\xa0Empire of Pain\xa0by Patrick Radden Keefe,\xa0The Urge: Our History of Addiction\xa0by Carl Erik Fisher and\xa0Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis\xa0by Ryan Hampton. Produced/hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang.
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