Health Affairs November 21, 2025
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By Patricia A. Roos
New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2024
402 pp., $26.95
On May 12, 2015, two Newark police officers approached Patricia Roos’s front door. Watching from her home office window, the Rutgers sociology professor knew instinctively what their arrival meant, her worst fears spilling out when they delivered the news: her 25-year-old son, Alex, had died of a heroin overdose. Roos chose not to retreat into her grief. Instead, she channeled her anguish into dissecting the...
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