![]() ![]() ![]() “I heard it was ‘just pills’ over and over,” she says. 6 - the journalist has widened her lens, crisscrossing the country to explore the roots of the opioid crisis. Now, in her new book, “ Dopesick” - which enters the nonfiction list at No. That’s the opening of an article that Beth Macy wrote for The Roanoke Times back in 2012, the first in a series about the deadly heroin epidemic roiling suburban Roanoke County, Va. “But it all caught up to him, eventually.” “For his entire adolescence, Mumpower managed to outwit any parent, program or police officer that stood between him and his drugs. For a time, he even outfoxed his court-appointed drug testers. He stole prescription painkillers from his parents’ medicine chest. “Spencer Mumpower … stashed marijuana inside his computer and guns under his pillow. ![]()
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