Peter Canning, "Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic"
English | ISBN: 1421439859 | 2021 | 314 pages | AZW3 | 1379 KB
A devastating, empathetic look at the opioid epidemic in the United States, through the eyes of a paramedic on the front lines.
set my cardiac monitor down by the young man's head. He is lifeless, his face white with a blue tinge. I apply the defibrillator pads to his hairless chest . . . A week from today, after the young man's brain shows no signs of electrical activity, the medical staff will take the breathing tube out, and with his family gathered by his side, he will pass away at the age of twenty-three.
When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five years ago, he believed drug users were victims only of their own character flaws. Although he took care of them, he did not care for them. But as the overdoses escalated, Canning began asking his patients how they had gotten started on their perilous journeys. And while no two tales were the same, their heartrending similarities changed Canning's view and moved him to educate himself about the science of addiction. Armed with that understanding, he began his fight against the stigmatization of users.
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