![]() ![]() What comes through most clearly from Dopesica is that we have to undo the vast transfer of wealth from poor and middle-class Americans to the rich. ![]() Other than Purdue Pharma, the only figures on whom she specifically pins responsibility for overdose deaths in the region are two black heroin dealers. Even Macy has a hard time grasping this fact, perhaps because of the curious racial bias that deforms her narrative. The simple truth doesn’t sit well with us: today, even for white people, selling drugs pays better than working. But it has been much harder to see when the unemployed in question are white. Dopesick is a gripping American drama miniseries that aired on Hulu, created by Danny Strong. You can clear a few grand a month as a low-level distributor, even more if you don’t dip into the product yourself. Where the factories and mines have closed down and the safety net, after years of budget cutting, is in tatters, selling drugs is a way to get by. Despite her fidelity to the conventional narratives-poor white despair, evil Big Pharma-what emerges from Macy’s detailed account is a radically different view of the opioid epidemic. ![]()
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