WilmU Book Club

November 2019  |  Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America


Date/Time:
Thursday, November 21, 2019  |  12:30 PM

Location:
 - Pratt Student Center, New Castle Campus
 - Online through Zoom

Please join the WilmU Book Club for a discussion on Beth Macy's book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. Students, Faculty, Alumni and Staff are all welcome!

RSVP to reserve your spot today!


Students, Staff and Faculty members can borrow a copy of the book from the Delaware Library Catalog. Click on 'Place Hold' to have the book sent to the Wilmington University Library in New Castle.


Can't make it in person? You can attend online via Zoom!
(look for the link here the day of)

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ABOUT THE BOOK

An instant New York Times bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to tell the full story of the opioid crisis, from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans struggling to save themselves and their families: "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) from a journalist who has lived through it.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard.

 

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