Many will likely stay the course-attempting to incarcerate the problem away-but Raising Lazarus provides an alternative road map for more compassionate and effective ways to use those funds. The book comes at a crucial moment: This year, funds from blockbuster opioid-related legal settlements are beginning to flow to local governments, which will have to decide how to use the money. Macy’s new book, Raising Lazarus, tackles the issue of how to treat the epidemic, making a passionate case for seeing addiction not as a moral weakness or a criminal problem but as an illness that’s treatable with medications like methadone and buprenorphine. Roanoke-based journalist Beth Macy is one of the best-known chroniclers of America’s opioid epidemic-first through her 2018 book, Dopesick, then with its adaptation into a Hulu TV series last fall.
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