Ethics in America’s Epidemic: Navigating Solutions and Hope in the Opioid Crisis

The Greenwall Foundation and New York University’s School of Global Public Health hosted the 2024 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture. Beth Macy, bestselling author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, discussed the US opioid epidemic and the ethical issues that accompany it. Ms. Macy was joined in conversation by Perri Peltz, a journalist, public health advocate, and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker known for the HBO documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You, which explores the devastating effects of opioid addiction and its relationship to big pharma.