'Dopesick' author Beth Macy joins Washington Post reporters Higham, Horwitz for a book talk on opioid crisis, Sept. 22

Donna Leinwand Leger

August 22, 2022

Award-winning "Dopesick" author and journalist Beth Macy will join Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz for a discussion of their new books on the opioid crisis in America at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Book and Author event on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 6:30 p.m.

Higham and Horwitz will discuss their new book, “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry," which takes a hard look at the role drug companies played in the epidemic of opioid addiction.

Macy, the author of the bestselling "Dopesick" and a writer and a producer on the Golden Globe-winning Hulu series "Dopesick" based on the book, continues her reporting on the opioid crisis with a book published Aug. 16, "Raising Lazarus: The Search for Hope and Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis." Macy's new book spotlights the solutions that work at the local level and how they might be scaled given the right resources.

The program will include a question-and-answer session with Higham and Horwitz, both investigative reporters for The Washington Post, and Macy. To submit a question in advance for the speaker, put CARTEL in the subject line and email to [email protected].

Tickets cost $5 for members of the National Press Club and $10 for the general public. Click here to reserve your seat.

Pre-ordered books will be available for pickup and signing at the event. Attendees will also be able to purchase books at the door.

About Scott Higham

Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post. He served as a lead reporter on the Post’s “The Opioid Files” series, which was a Pulitzer finalist for Public Service in 2020. His investigation into the opioid industry with CBS's “60 Minutes” received the Peabody Award, an Emmy, and the duPont-Columbia and Edward R. Murrow awards. Higham is the co-author of “Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery.”

About Sari Horwitz

Sari Horwitz is a four-time Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter who has been at The Washington Post for four decades, where she has covered the Justice Department and criminal justice issues. She was a lead reporter on the Post’s “The Opioid Files” series, which was a Pulitzer finalist for Public Service in 2020. Horwitz has authored or co-authored three books: “Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery,” “Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation” and “Justice in Indian Country.”

About Beth Macy

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Beth Macy is a Virginia-based journalist with three decades of experience and an award-winning author of three New York Times bestselling books: “Factory Man,” “Truevine,” and “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.” Her first book, “Factory Man,” won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize and “Dopesick” was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, won the L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, and was described as a “masterwork of narrative nonfiction” by The New York Times. Dopesick has now been made into a Peabody award-winning and Emmy-nominated Hulu series on which she acted as an executive producer and cowriter.