A devastating, empathetic look at the opioid epidemic in the United
States, through the eyes of a paramedic on the front lines. [I] 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. In Killing Season, we ride along with Canning through the
streets of Hartford as he tells stories of opioid overdose from a
street-level vantage point. A first responder to hundreds of
overdoses throughout the rise of America's epidemic, Canning has
seen the impact of prescription painkillers, heroin, and the deadly
synthetic opioid fentanyl firsthand. Bringing us into the room (or
the car, or the portable toilet) with the victims of this epidemic,
Canning explains how he came to favor harm reduction, which
advocates for needle exchange, community naloxone, and
safe-injection sites. Through the rapid-fire nature of one
paramedic's view of addiction and overdose, readers will come to
understand more than just the science and misguided policies behind
the opioid epidemic. They'll also share in Canning's developing
empathy. Stripping away the stigma of addiction through stories
that are hard-hitting, poignant, sad, confessional, funny, and
overall, human, Killing Season will change minds about the
epidemic, help obliterate stigma, and save lives.
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