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Author beth macy5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Michelle Mathis, who runs an outreach with her wife in Mount Airy, North Carolina, a town thought to be the inspiration for Andy Griffith's fictional Mayberry she describes herself "like the grandma that does syringe exchange and delivers biscuits." Nan Goldin, a renowned photographer whose large-scale pop-up protests have brought attention to the opioid epidemic and shame to the Sackler family, whose company, Purdue Pharma, reaped billions in profits. ![]() Tim Nolan, a nurse practitioner who treats the forgotten and forsaken in rural North Carolina with medical supplies pulled from the back of his Prius. The heroes in Beth Macy's latest book are "stone rollers," people who, like the women of Bethany in the biblical story of Lazarus, move heavy rocks while defying custom to raise others from the slow spiritual (and often physical) death of addiction. ![]()
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