Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

by Peter Canning

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421439859
• ISBN13: 9781421439853
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"