On today's episode, I'm joined by the author of multiple New York Times best-sellers,

including Dopeseek.

She goes into stories from her brand new book, Raising Lazarus, which tackles the ongoing

opioid epidemic by uncovering big pharma corruption, while showcasing those who risk their

careers and their lives to fight against this man-made drug disease that continues to

plague America.

So without further ado, here is my conversation with the Emmy-nominated award-winning author,

Beth Macy, and this, is uncovering the truth.

Beth, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

Well, let's just get right into it.

I want to start with a quote that you wrote in the book Raising Lazarus, and it just

gives me the chills, and you write, about the victims of oxycontin, quote, these are

not moral failures or criminals, but these are people with treatable diseases.

So do we stigmatize the victims of oxycontin, you know, because it's psychologically

easier for us to blame them as opposed to so hollowing the reality that there could be

a company like Purdue Pharma that is so evil, and it's right in front of our very eyes.

Yeah, I mean, I think stigma is really at the basis of the fact that our main forms

of dealing with opioid use disorder in the folks who have fallen to that are to incarcerate

them, or to just let them die, to medically abandon them.

If you go back to what what Richard Sackler said in the early days of oxycontin, he said,

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