Beth Macy
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was...
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick (inspiration for the Peabody Award-winning Hulu limited series) and Factory Man.
Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer
The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around...
In eine Boeing 787 passen ungefähr 250 Menschen. Genauso viele Menschen sterben in den USA täglich an Opioiden, also an Schmerzmitteln wie etwa Oxycodon, Vicodin oder Fentanyl. In der Altersgruppe der unter 50-Jährigen stellt die Überdosierung von Schmerzmitteln oder Drogen mittlerweile die häufigste Todesursache dar, noch vor Waffengewalt oder Verkehrsunfällen. Viele der
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