To turn our declining life expectancy around, we must scale up Rivera’s harm-reduction approach, which means supporting people who use drugs, not stigmatizing them. As executive director of OnPoint NYC, he meets drug users without judgment, instead offering support, clean needles, and critical connections to care that include providing medically supervised injection spaces at three sites in New York City.
Sam Rivera has pioneered an approach to help, rather than abandon or simply jail-as we usually do-an estimated 7 million Americans with OUD. And yet only a slim fraction-roughly 11%-of people with opioid use disorder (OUD) managed to access evidence-based care in 2020. Macy puts a face on this ongoing crisis with stories of hope and success, options to explore, and comfort to grieving families.In 2021, roughly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. Sackler covered up Ox圜ontin’s high addictiveness and instructed pharmaceutical representatives to promote higher doses to increase company profits. businessman and physician who was chairman and president of Purdue Pharma.
Blame for the opioid crisis is placed squarely on Richard Sackler, the billionaire U.S. She objectively details several types of programs that have experienced successes and have been shut down by local governments, such as needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of HIV, hepatitis C, and deaths from dirty needles treatment modalities for those with mental illness and addiction and use of buprenorphine as a tool to help treat opioid addiction. Narrating her own work, Macy heartbreakingly delivers exemplary stories of activists and ordinary people fighting to help those experiencing opioid-use disorder, pleading their cases in courts, and educating others to help remove the stigma of substance-use disorder. Award-winning journalist Macy ( Dopesick) imbues empathy and compassion into her follow-up book about the opioid crisis.
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