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One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022Author of Dopesick, the New York Times bestselling book that inspired the Hulu limited series New York Times Bestselling author of Dopesick and Factory ManIn her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts.Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created.