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Finding Tess
- A Mother’s Search for Answers in a Dopesick America
- Narrated by: Beth Macy
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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On Christmas Eve, 2017, Tess Henry was found dead in a dumpster in Las Vegas. Tess was a 28-year-old new mother, a former honor roll student, and a high school basketball player from suburban Roanoke, Virginia, a place ravaged by the national opioid crisis. The New York Times best-selling author Beth Macy chronicled Tess and her mom, Patricia, through Tess' harrowing, years-long battle to recover from heroin addiction in her award-winning book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. But just as Tess was on the brink of returning to a normal life with her young son, she was brutally murdered.
Finding Tess: A Mother’s Search for Answers in a Dopesick America is a psychosocial autopsy of sorts, not just a retracing of Tess’ final steps on the streets of Las Vegas but also a dissection of what went wrong during the six-year span of her opioid addiction as well as the changes inspired by her story. This exclusive audio documentary - a coda to Dopesick - features interviews with Tess, her family, and many of those who tried to help her along the way as well as the systems and the people who failed her. By tracing Tess’ final steps as she tried so hard to make her way back to Virginia - and to her son - Finding Tess illuminates a journey shared by too many of the 2.6 million Americans battling opioid addiction, offering lessons from a cast of unlikely heroes and, along with them, hope.
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- Alexandra C.
- 14-12-22
Amazing story of heartbreak and revelations of the opioid epidemic
Wow what a story and truly heartbreaking but written so well a true look at a persons life through opioid addiction and the family’s effected
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- Petee
- 09-12-21
A truly heartbreaking story.
After reading Dopesick by Beth Macy I came onto this book.
These books are a MUST READ and should be brought into the educationally system throughout America and the world. Patricia my heart truly goes out to you and all your family and everyone else who’s going through this tragic illness. I just hope more light can be she onto it and more help made available.
To you Beth Macy, well done. A real reporter who has gone to what seems the darkest place you can imagine and bringing it into the light to help others.
My heart truly goes out to you all and I am reading this from Wales in the United Kingdom and after the depth of this book I feel I know you All personally and my heart is broken for you all. But the strength,commitment to get this out there is truly a testimony to you all and Tess will be looking down knowing that some way she has helped.
‘Sometimes the brightest light comes from the darkest places’
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- LoveIrishStuff
- 31-05-21
Eye Opening
Thus is such an important piece of work. Rest well Tess. It's obvious you were much loved.
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- LBlanco
- 05-10-19
Heartbreaking Reality.
I can't believe there are people prostituting themselves to get medication against opioid addiction. It is unfortunate that health insurances or the goverment do not help them in the United States. They have been abandoned to their fate and only those who have a lot of money can pay the expensive treatments in a facility and have the opportunity to rebuild their lives. This is not fair for them and their families. Waiting lists for rehab are killing people.
This story is the story of many people struggling with addiction. All they need is support and love. It is not easy to overcome addiction and avoid relapsing but it will never happens if no one help them. Withdraw symptoms are awful and mentally destructive. Do not let the brain think clearly or make rational choices. Addiction is a chronic brain disease and it should be treated like other mental health illness.
Please we need to avoid stigma. The mayority of them, around a 75%, are addicted to opioids because of the use of prescription painkillers recomended by their doctors. No one choses to be an addict and being homeless. No one wants to die of an overdose alone in the streets. We all make mistakes in life and we all deserve a second chance.
Thank you very much to Tess family for sharing their story in this book. I hope it will help to raise awareness worldwide. You are very brave. Tess was very brave. No one deserve to die the way she did. I am very sorry for your loss and every loss that is happening DAILY. More than 170 people die everyday due addiction related causes in the United States. This is clearly an epidemic. It is killing an entire generation of loved young people and destroying families, mentally and financially. This should not be happening.
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- DIANE NEWLANDS
- 20-12-21
Very disappointing
I persevered till the end, although it was sad and tragic for Tess's Mum. I found the whole thing boring and predictable.
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