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Top 25 Beth Macy Quotes (2025 Update)

Beth Macy Quote: “Drug overdose had already taken the lives of 300,000 Americans over the past fifteen years, and experts now predicted that 300,000 more would die in only the next five. It is now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of fifty, killing more people than guns or car accidents, at a rate higher than the HIV epidemic at its peak.”

1. “Drug overdose had already taken the lives of 300,000 Americans over the past fifteen years, and experts now predicted that 300,000 more would die in only the next five. It is now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of fifty, killing more people than guns or car accidents, at a rate higher than the HIV epidemic at its peak.”

Beth Macy Quote: “America’s approach to its opioid problem is to rely on Battle of Dunkirk strategies – leaving the fight to well-meaning citizens, in their fishing vessels and private boats – when what’s really needed to win the war is a full-on Normandy Invasion.”

2. “America’s approach to its opioid problem is to rely on Battle of Dunkirk strategies – leaving the fight to well-meaning citizens, in their fishing vessels and private boats – when what’s really needed to win the war is a full-on Normandy Invasion.”

Beth Macy Quote: “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason.”

3. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason.”

Beth Macy Quote: “When you peer into the country’s most intractable problems – homelessness, disability, domestic violence, child neglect – you see the persistence of dopesickness everywhere.”

4. “When you peer into the country’s most intractable problems – homelessness, disability, domestic violence, child neglect – you see the persistence of dopesickness everywhere.”

Beth Macy Quote: “During the time the Muse brothers began performing, Nicholas pointed out, adults could legally mail children – by affixing stamps to their shirts and putting them on a train.”

5. “During the time the Muse brothers began performing, Nicholas pointed out, adults could legally mail children – by affixing stamps to their shirts and putting them on a train.”

Beth Macy Quote: “Whatever rules you make, you better stick to them. Your son or daughter depends on it. They will call your bluff on everything. Don’t you budge. Changing the rules only confuses a young, developing mind.”

6. “Whatever rules you make, you better stick to them. Your son or daughter depends on it. They will call your bluff on everything. Don’t you budge. Changing the rules only confuses a young, developing mind.”

Beth Macy Quote: “Americans, representing 4.4 percent of the world’s population, consume roughly 30 percent of its opioids.”

7. “Americans, representing 4.4 percent of the world’s population, consume roughly 30 percent of its opioids.”

Beth Macy Quote: “In a windowless nook of a downtown Roanoke funeral parlor, not far from where Tess once roamed the streets, Patricia caressed the back of the scar, as if cupping a baby’s head, and told her poet goodbye. It was January 2, Tess’s birthday. She would have been twenty-nine. Patricia tucked the treasures of her daughter’s life inside the vest – a picture of her boy and one of his cotton onesies that was Tess’s favorite, some strands of Koda’s hair, and a sand dollar.”

8. “In a windowless nook of a downtown Roanoke funeral parlor, not far from where Tess once roamed the streets, Patricia caressed the back of the scar, as if cupping a baby’s head, and told her poet goodbye. It was January 2, Tess’s birthday. She would have been twenty-nine. Patricia tucked the treasures of her daughter’s life inside the vest – a picture of her boy and one of his cotton onesies that was Tess’s favorite, some strands of Koda’s hair, and a sand dollar.”

Beth Macy Quote: “Because there is no love you can throw on them, no hug big enough that will change the power of that drug; it is just beyond imagination how controlling and destructive it is.”

9. “Because there is no love you can throw on them, no hug big enough that will change the power of that drug; it is just beyond imagination how controlling and destructive it is.”

Beth Macy Quote: “He was as serious as a copperhead in a wood stack. His.”

10. “He was as serious as a copperhead in a wood stack. His.”

Beth Macy Quote: “The whole system needs revamped,” said Tracey Helton Mitchell, a recovering heroin user, author, and activist. “In the United States, we are very attached to our twelve-step rehabs, which are not affordable, not standardized from one place to another, and not necessarily effective” for the opioid-addicted.”

11. “The whole system needs revamped,” said Tracey Helton Mitchell, a recovering heroin user, author, and activist. “In the United States, we are very attached to our twelve-step rehabs, which are not affordable, not standardized from one place to another, and not necessarily effective” for the opioid-addicted.”

Beth Macy Quote: “The term “hipster,” in fact, drew from the Chinese opium smoker of the 1800s, who’d spent much of his time smoking while reclining on one hip. The hipster counterculture took inspiration from heroin-addicted jazz greats like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.”

12. “The term “hipster,” in fact, drew from the Chinese opium smoker of the 1800s, who’d spent much of his time smoking while reclining on one hip. The hipster counterculture took inspiration from heroin-addicted jazz greats like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.”

Beth Macy Quote: “I think we all need to own a little raw piece of this history. And to own it, we need to understand it and acknowledge it. As Julius Lester has said, “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart, and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.”

13. “I think we all need to own a little raw piece of this history. And to own it, we need to understand it and acknowledge it. As Julius Lester has said, “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart, and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.”

Beth Macy Quote: “Words linger and words matter, I learned, and it’s not possible to predict the fallout they can have on a subject’s life.”

14. “Words linger and words matter, I learned, and it’s not possible to predict the fallout they can have on a subject’s life.”

Beth Macy Quote: “But there is still only one treatment bed available for every five people trying to get into rehab, and at a cost far beyond the financial reach of most heroin users.”

15. “But there is still only one treatment bed available for every five people trying to get into rehab, and at a cost far beyond the financial reach of most heroin users.”

Beth Macy Quote: “The more we talk about the epidemic as an individual disease phenomenon or a moral failing, the easier it is to obfuscate and ignore the social and economic conditions that predispose certain individuals to addiction. The fix isn’t more Suboxone or lectures on morality but rather a reinvigorated democracy that provides a pathway for meaningful work, with a living wage, for everybody.”

16. “The more we talk about the epidemic as an individual disease phenomenon or a moral failing, the easier it is to obfuscate and ignore the social and economic conditions that predispose certain individuals to addiction. The fix isn’t more Suboxone or lectures on morality but rather a reinvigorated democracy that provides a pathway for meaningful work, with a living wage, for everybody.”

Beth Macy Quote: “But you can’t put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it’s not really their money anyway.”

17. “But you can’t put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it’s not really their money anyway.”

Beth Macy Quote: “When we get on top, the man said, don’t expect us to be dumb enough to do for you what you’ve been dumb enough to do for us. It would take many more trips to Asia before it became clear to JBIII what the Taiwanese furniture maker meant. During that time, two events helped ensure China would indeed get on top: China’s admission into the WTO, and the great exodus of 160 million rural Chinese to the cities – the largest migration in human history.”

18. “When we get on top, the man said, don’t expect us to be dumb enough to do for you what you’ve been dumb enough to do for us. It would take many more trips to Asia before it became clear to JBIII what the Taiwanese furniture maker meant. During that time, two events helped ensure China would indeed get on top: China’s admission into the WTO, and the great exodus of 160 million rural Chinese to the cities – the largest migration in human history.”

Beth Macy Quote: “The real value in manufacturing is creating a community where cash flows. If the American people only realized what’s taken place, they wouldn’t ever buy anything from Walmart again.”

19. “The real value in manufacturing is creating a community where cash flows. If the American people only realized what’s taken place, they wouldn’t ever buy anything from Walmart again.”

Beth Macy Quote: “The latest research on substance use disorder from Harvard Medical School shows it takes the typical opioid-addicted user eight years – and four to five treatment attempts – to achieve remission for just a single year. And yet only about 10 percent of the addicted population manages to get access to care and treatment for a disease that has roughly the same incidence rate as diabetes.”

20. “The latest research on substance use disorder from Harvard Medical School shows it takes the typical opioid-addicted user eight years – and four to five treatment attempts – to achieve remission for just a single year. And yet only about 10 percent of the addicted population manages to get access to care and treatment for a disease that has roughly the same incidence rate as diabetes.”

Beth Macy Quote: “Shadowing Tim Nolan, the sixty-two-year-old nurse-practitioner, reminded me of a quote I’d first heard from an addiction doctor in Massachusetts. He said the solution to the epidemic could be summed up in a single quote from a Harvard physician in 1926: “The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.”

21. “Shadowing Tim Nolan, the sixty-two-year-old nurse-practitioner, reminded me of a quote I’d first heard from an addiction doctor in Massachusetts. He said the solution to the epidemic could be summed up in a single quote from a Harvard physician in 1926: “The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.”

Beth Macy Quote: “If we reduced our prison population by twenty-five percent, that’s twenty billion dollars we could save. And if we invested half of that in treatment, we could really increase people’s likelihood of success.”

22. “If we reduced our prison population by twenty-five percent, that’s twenty billion dollars we could save. And if we invested half of that in treatment, we could really increase people’s likelihood of success.”

Beth Macy Quote: “The corporation feels no pain.”

23. “The corporation feels no pain.”

Beth Macy Quote: “Taped-up boxes signified the dry goods to which they had added clean needles, condoms, wound-care kits, and socks. “Ten syringes fit nicely in a box of Nature’s Valley granola when you take out a few bars,” she said.”

24. “Taped-up boxes signified the dry goods to which they had added clean needles, condoms, wound-care kits, and socks. “Ten syringes fit nicely in a box of Nature’s Valley granola when you take out a few bars,” she said.”

Beth Macy Quote: “In a country that spends five times more to incarcerate people with SUD than it does to treat their medical condition, progress was stagnant. In 2019, an estimated 18.9 million Americans in need of treatment didn’t receive it. That’s a treatment gap of roughly 90 percent.”

25. “In a country that spends five times more to incarcerate people with SUD than it does to treat their medical condition, progress was stagnant. In 2019, an estimated 18.9 million Americans in need of treatment didn’t receive it. That’s a treatment gap of roughly 90 percent.”

Beth Macy Quote: “A trickle of settled lawsuits won’t “satisfy the populace because what people really thought they wanted was blood,” said Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Travis Rieder. “What we really need is a whole new public health infrastructure.”

26. “A trickle of settled lawsuits won’t “satisfy the populace because what people really thought they wanted was blood,” said Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Travis Rieder. “What we really need is a whole new public health infrastructure.”

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