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Ed Bisch is a father from Philadelphia who doesn’t know anything about OxyContin or the opioid epidemic until the day that he learns his son Eddie has fatally overdosed. His son’s death inspires him to create the website OxyKills.com, which becomes one of the first places online where families of victims of the opioid epidemic can gather to share their stories.
Ed Bisch Quotes in Dopesick
The Dopesick quotes below are all either spoken by Ed Bisch or refer to Ed Bisch. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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Though it took nearly a decade before police, the press, and drug-abuse experts fully understood what was happening, Ed Bisch watched the urbanization of the pill epidemic play out on his front lawn in 2001, as paramedics carried his son’s body away.
He retreated to his computer, where he was shocked to learn that his son’s death had been the region’s thirtieth opioid overdose in the past three months.
How was that possible when he’d only just learned the word? “The internet was still new, and back then it was mostly message boards as opposed to websites,” he said.
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Ed Bisch Quotes in Dopesick
The Dopesick quotes below are all either spoken by Ed Bisch or refer to Ed Bisch. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
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Though it took nearly a decade before police, the press, and drug-abuse experts fully understood what was happening, Ed Bisch watched the urbanization of the pill epidemic play out on his front lawn in 2001, as paramedics carried his son’s body away.
He retreated to his computer, where he was shocked to learn that his son’s death had been the region’s thirtieth opioid overdose in the past three months.
How was that possible when he’d only just learned the word? “The internet was still new, and back then it was mostly message boards as opposed to websites,” he said.
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