Medical Center Hour
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 12:00 to 1:00
In Person at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building Learning Studio
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89105967067
Hope and Help: America’s Overdose Crisis
Speaker: Beth Macy, Author
Author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Beth Macy is a Virginia-based journalist who writes about outsiders and underdogs. She is the New York Times best-selling author of four books, including Factory Man and Dopesick, which won the L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, and was described as a “masterwork of narrative nonfiction” by The New York Times.
Dopesick was made into a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning Hulu series; Macy was an executive producer and cowriter on the show. Her 2022 book, Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, was a follow-up to Dopesick and explored on-the-ground solutions to the nation’s drug epidemic.
Free and open to the public
Find information on our spring 2025 programs here
Handouts from our past programs can be found below.
About
Medical Center Hour is the School of Medicine’s weekly public forum on medicine and society. Produced by the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, the series includes History of the Health Sciences Lectures co-presented with Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. The series is also home to several other annual lectures of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Medical Center Hour is presented on Wednesdays from mid-September through March at midday (12:00-1:00 pm) in the medical school’s Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium, and on Zoom, unless otherwise announced. All programs are free and open to the entire university and the public.
Most programs are video recorded for educational purposes and, with speakers’ permission, made available through UVA Library and also on Medical Center Hour’s dedicated YouTube channel, UVAMCH. Because recordings must be closed-captioned before being posted, there will be delays in online program availability.
PLEASE NOTE: The post activity evaluation for each program will only be available 15 minutes prior and 7 days after each session. Credit will not be issued after the evaluation period has closed. Information on how to submit an evaluation is at the bottom of every handout.