Dan Peres, former editor of Details magazine, recently released a memoir of his time as an opiate addict while heading a major publication. As Needed for Pain is a quick read with some interesting aspects.
The Pharmacist
Almost everyone realizes we as a country, actually we as a planet, are in the midst of an opiate epidemic. How we got here is a story of both misguided good intentions, and outright deception rooted in greed. The Netflix four part series The Pharmacist explores the beginning of the opiate epidemic in the US by telling one individual’s story while tying into broader events from the country as a whole.