![]() ![]() ![]() Finding Tess: A Mother's Search for Answers in a Dopesick America is a psychosocial autopsy of sorts, not just a retracing of Tess' final steps on the streets of Las Vegas but also a dissection of what went wrong during the six-year span of her opioid addiction as well as the changes inspired by her story. But just as Tess was on the brink of returning to a normal life with her young son, she was brutally murdered. ![]() The New York Times best-selling author Beth Macy chronicled Tess and her mom, Patricia, through Tess' harrowing, years-long battle to recover from heroin addiction in her award-winning book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. Tess was a 28-year-old new mother, a former honor roll student, and a high school basketball player from suburban Roanoke, Virginia, a place ravaged by the national opioid crisis. On Christmas Eve, 2017, Tess Henry was found dead in a dumpster in Las Vegas. ![]()
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