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SUMMARY:Author Series: Raising Lazarus
DESCRIPTION:Join Countway Library and HMS Center for Bioethics for an 
 author talk with Beth Macy about her book\, Raising Lazarus\n\n\n	Books 
 will be sold (Porter Square Books) and signed at event!\n	Registration 
 required\n\n\nNearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose 
 crisis\, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they 
 created. As pending court battles against opioid makers\, distributors\, 
 and retailers drag on\, addiction rates have soared to record-breaking 
 levels during the COVID pandemic\, illustrating the critical need for 
 leadership\, urgency\, and change. Meanwhile\, there is scant consensus 
 between law enforcement and medical leaders\, nor an understanding of how 
 to truly scale the programs that are out there\, working at the ragged edge 
 of capacity and actually saving lives.\n\nDistilling this massive\, 
 unprecedented national health crisis down to its character-driven emotional 
 core as only she can\, Beth Macy takes us into the country’s hardest hit 
 places to witness the devastating personal costs that one-third of 
 America's families are now being forced to shoulder. Here we meet the 
 ordinary people fighting for the least of us with the fewest resources\, 
 from harm reductionists risking arrest to bring lifesaving care to the 
 homeless and addicted to the activists and bereaved families pushing to 
 hold Purdue and the Sackler family accountable. These heroes come from all 
 walks of life\; what they have in common is an up-close and personal 
 understanding of addiction that refuses to stigmatize—and therefore 
 abandon—people who use drugs\, as big pharma execs and many politicians 
 are all too ready to do. \n\nAbout the author:\n\nBeth Macy is a 
 Virginia-based journalist who writes about outsiders and underdogs. Raised 
 in a small Ohio town\, she is the award-winning author of three New York 
 Times bestselling books that have examined communities left behind by 
 corporate greed and political indifference. Her first book\, Factory Man\, 
 explored the aftermath of globalization and won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize. 
 Dopesick was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal\, won the L.A. Times Book 
 Prize for Science and Technology\, and was described as a “masterwork of 
 narrative nonfiction” by The New York Times. Dopesick was made into a 
 Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning Hulu series on which Macy served as an 
 executive producer and cowriter. Her 2022 book\, Raising Lazarus: Hope\, 
 Justice\, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis\, was a follow-up 
 to Dopesick and explored on-the-ground solutions to the nation’s drug 
 epidemic.\n\nA 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2010 Nieman Fellow for 
 Journalism at Harvard\, Macy has also written for The New York Times\, The 
 Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. Her next 
 book\, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America\, is 
 a combination memoir and reported analysis of the rural-urban divide told 
 through the lenses of declining upward mobility\, polarization\, and the 
 decimation of local and regional news. Penguin Press will publish it in 
 October 2025.\n\n
LOCATION:Countway Floor 1: Room 102\, Harvard Longwood Campus
ORGANIZER;CN="Meredith Solomon":MAILTO:meredith_solomon@hms.harvard.edu
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CONTACT;CN="Meredith Solomon":MAILTO:meredith_solomon@hms.harvard.edu
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