Killing season : a paramedic's dispatches from the front lines of the opioid epidemic / Peter Canning.
By: Canning, Peter [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2021Description: 302 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421439853.Subject(s): Canning, Peter, 1958- | Opioid abuse -- Connecticut -- Hartford | Drug addicts -- Medical care -- Connecticut -- Hartford | Emergency medical services -- Connecticut -- HartfordGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "Author Canning, a paramedic from Hartford, CT, writes about working on the front lines of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Canning takes readers on ambulance rides to the scene of overdose cases. His descriptions of what he finds there are vivid, disturbing, and moving. He explains his own transformation from someone with contempt for addicts to someone with sympathy for them, given what we now know about opiates' effects on brain chemistry. Canning advocates what is known as harm reduction in an effort to save those who struggle to quit drugs"--| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Author Canning, a paramedic from Hartford, CT, writes about working on the front lines of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Canning takes readers on ambulance rides to the scene of overdose cases. His descriptions of what he finds there are vivid, disturbing, and moving. He explains his own transformation from someone with contempt for addicts to someone with sympathy for them, given what we now know about opiates' effects on brain chemistry. Canning advocates what is known as harm reduction in an effort to save those who struggle to quit drugs"--