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\u201cAnd so, then I thought,\xa0Who do I most admire?\xa0Who taught me the most, and also, they're doing it for completely selfless reasons, right?\xa0And I thought,\xa0Oh, that moment and the parking lot. So, I thought, I'm going to start a book in the parking lot of a McDonald's dumpster in a dying town and show you how, in the most unlikely places, magic is happening.\u201d Beth Macy\u2019s 2018 bestseller\xa0Dopesick\xa0and the Emmy-nominated Hulu streamer it inspired have helped changed our national conversation about Opioids and addiction. Her new book,\xa0Raising Lazarus, takes a new approach to our ever-growing crisis, focusing on solutions and the people bringing those solutions to our communities. Beth joins us on the show to talk about harm reduction, meeting people where they are, organizing at a local level, the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma and the behavior of the Sackler family, activism, and more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.

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Featured Books (episode)

Raising Lazarus\xa0by Beth Macy

Dopesick\xa0by Beth Macy

Empire of Pain\xa0by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Undoing Drugs\xa0by Maia Szalavitz

Death in Mud Lick\xa0by Eric Eyre

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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).

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A full transcript of this episode is available here.