Mandi

“Because there is no love you can throw on them, no hug big enough that will change the power of that drug; it is just beyond imagination how controlling and destructive it is.”
― Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

“But there is still only one treatment bed available for every five people trying to get into rehab, and at a cost far beyond the financial reach of most heroin users.”
― Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

“Later, you will you learn that a common feature of domestic abuse is “dislocation.” That is to say, the victim has just moved somewhere new, or she’s somewhere where she doesn’t speak the language, or has been otherwise uprooted from her support network, her friends or family, her ability to communicate. She is made vulnerable by her circumstance, her isolation. Her only ally is her abuser, which is to say she has no ally at all. And so she has to struggle against an unchangeable landscape that has been hammered into existence by nothing less than time itself; a house that is too big to dismantle by hand; a situation too complex and overwhelming to master on her own.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway.”
― Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America