Killing season a paramedic's dispatches from the front lines of the opioid epidemic

"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 hi...

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1. Verfasser: Canning, Peter (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:302 Seiten
ISBN:9781421439853
978-1-4214-3985-3
9781421439860