![]() ![]() Tess is a major figure in the book, with Macy detailing how, for nearly two years, the author herself would even ferry Tess to rehab support groups, hold her infant during sessions and visit her in psych wards.īut despite Tess’s valiant efforts to wrest free of addiction, her body was found in Las Vegas on Christmas Eve in 2017, naked, covered with burns, inside a plastic bag at the bottom of a dumpster. ![]() “ Dopesick,” Beth Macy’s deeply reported account of how opioids came to savage so many Appalachian families, concludes with a wrenching image of Patricia Mehrmann tenderly preparing her 28-year-old daughter, Tess Henry, for burial. ![]() RAISING LAZARUS: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, by Beth Macy ![]()
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