Dopesick

DRUG AND ALCOHOL CRISIS 

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Many small towns and rural areas are hit hard by the drug crisis. Whether you know someone who is struggling with drug addiction or not, "Dopesick" is a book worth reading. It is written by Ryan Homanics from Westmoreland County. His story is an eye-opener into the epidemic that is taking many of our young kids, and tearing families apart. Ryan draws upon personal experiences over nearly a decade of being addicted to drugs. And he merges that understanding with a look at the socio-economic environment that the heroin epidemic thrives on. 

"He lays out in Dopesick how the current conditions of the society around us are actually driving the epidemic to higher and higher levels of human tragedy.
The human desire to acquire profit at all costs are causing institutions large and small to put dollar bills over human lives.
Until the fundamental driving forces behind the heroin epidemic are identified, addressed, critiqued, and changed, the problem will only get worse. Significantly worse."