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  • Killing Season

  • A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
  • By: Peter Canning
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 10 hrs
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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Killing Season

By: Peter Canning
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, 25 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, Canning 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 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.

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.

©2021 Peter Canning (P)2021 Tantor
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Wow what an eye opener

Thanks you for your compassionate story telling and bringing truth to heart wrenching depictions of the epidemic plaguing us.

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Touching, informative

Narrator took a little getting used to but after a few chapters his cadence felt normal. The book itself was enlightening and touching. I won’t look at addicts the same as I have in the past. Thank you for this book.

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Great Resource While Entertaining

I got this book because I thought it would be interesting. It was absolutely fascinating! Not only did the stories keep me entertained (not always for their positivity), but I learned so much about the drug crisis in America, addicts/addiction, and so much more!

Also, if one wants to write a book with a character who is a user, especially of heroin and/or fentanyl, though other drugs were discussed as well, is an excellent resource as it shares information about many things we might not even think to research. For example, there's a certain position that many ODs are found in when they've passed away. And there's a difference in the skin between homeless users and those who still have a home...beyond the expected difference with non-users who are homeless vs. not.

I definitely recommend this book!

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Incredibly educational

I wish more people would read this book. So many people are uneducated about how addiction works. This book can open up so many eyes, and also save some lives.

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Anyone in public service needs to read this!

I loved it. These are the facts. Love people, especially those who need it.

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