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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
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Killing Season

By: Peter Canning
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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Summary

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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Heartbreaking but inspiring

Heartbreaking stories told by a man with a big heart. A real reality check that changed my perspective on users and inspired me to start looking for harm reduction programs that I can support. The 4 stars for the performance are due to the narrator speaking too slowly for my liking and due to his pronunciation of words in any language apart from English.

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Bleak but compelling

This is really compelling, heartbreaking and bleak. Important information from the front line of addiction.

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What An Account

This review will be edited once I’ve fully finished this audiobook/kindle edition. I am currently half way through this startling account of the Ambulance driver Peter Canning and I ( I was a painkiller addict ) am shocked a little about how so many people become addicted to heroin, opioids or fentanyl because of an injury they sustained from anything ranging from a football accident to a severe car crash. Narrator was excellent and delivered the story perfectly.

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Excellent book!

A must read for all, especially health professionals. Well researched and informed content throughout. Excellent!

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What a book!

Wow, so good I listened to it in 1 day. A definite must read that not only educates but teaches compassion.

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good book overall , reader a little droll

Over all a good book . a look at the point of view and opinions of a paramedic, Although I feel he is very hung up on people with tattoos he mentions a couple times that drug users are 30 something with tattoos and scraggy looking and mentions drug users all the same have tattoos. Many drug addicts dont have tattoos you know shock horror. many are professionals working and look like a soccer mum and dad. I know this is his opinion and maybe what he has seen but then he talks about 50 year olds 60 year olds.

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