NPC Headliners Book Event: Scott Higham & Sari Horwitz with special guest Beth Macy - “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry”

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