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“Drug overdose had already taken the lives of 300,000 Americans over the past fifteen years, and experts now predicted that 300,000 more would die in only the next five. It is now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of fifty, killing more people than guns or car accidents, at a rate higher than the HIV epidemic at its peak.”
― Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

“The whole system needs revamped,” said Tracey Helton Mitchell, a recovering heroin user, author, and activist. “In the United States, we are very attached to our twelve-step rehabs, which are not affordable, not standardized from one place to another, and not necessarily effective” for the opioid-addicted.”
― Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

“Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can, here in Europe, on radio and television—in fact, have just returned from a land, Germany, which was made notorious by a silent majority not so very long ago.”
― James Baldwin

“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