Like in Charleston, West Virginia, where it’s the worst of the worst, there’s evil on top of it. Jacqueline Alnes: Your book opens with an epigraph from Ann Pancake: “In times like these you have to grow big enough inside to hold both the loss and the hope.” There is hope in Raising Lazarus, but so many weighty subjects too: the opioid crisis, the pandemic, the violent effects of climate change, corporate greed.īeth Macy: And there’s political toxicity. I spoke with Macy over the phone about the importance of community in care, how she sees her role as a journalist, and how important it is for us to lift stigma from individuals and place shame where it belongs: on the Sacklers. With her trademark compassion and curiosity, Macy writes to destigmatize addiction and chronicle the trials-and the joys-experienced by communities in crisis as they work toward more hopeful futures. The lack of coordinated national response to the opioid crisis, which has been magnified by the pandemic in irreparable ways, has forced individuals to shoulder the burden of care, often working outside established systems and the eye of the law to provide drug users resources and connection. In Raising Lazarus, Macy not only offers insight into the complex web of the Purdue Pharma case, but focuses attention on the efforts of activists who are forging new pathways to healing in their communities.
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