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SUMMARY:America’s Failed Response to the Opioid Crisis with Author Shosh
 ana Walter (Virtual Event)
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special conversation between award-winning journ
 alist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kin
 gsolver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In 
 this work, Walter, a Pulitzer finalist, exposes the country’s failed res
 ponse to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil
  which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.Today, more people have acc
 ess to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer i
 s that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people ge
 t a real chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths, our
  default response is still to punish, while rehabs across the United State
 s fail to incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit patient
 s. In this book, you’ll find the stories of four people who represent t
 he failures of the rehab-industrial complex, and the ways our treatment sy
 stem often prevents recovery. April is a black mom in Philadelphia, who wi
 tnessed firsthand how the government’s punitive response to the crack ep
 idemic impeded her mother’s recovery—and then her own. Chris, a young 
 middle-class white man from Louisiana, received more opportunities in his 
 addiction than April, including the chance to go to treatment instead of p
 rison. Yet the only program the judge permitted was one that forced him to
  perform unpaid back-breaking labor at for-profit companies. Wendy is a mo
 ther from a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, whose son died in a sober livin
 g home. She began investigating for-profit treatment programs—yet law en
 forcement and regulators routinely ignored her warnings, allowing rehab pa
 tients to die, again and again. Larry is a surgeon who himself struggled w
 ith addiction, and would eventually become one of the first Suboxone presc
 ribers in the nation, drawing the scrutiny of the Drug Enforcement Adminis
 tration. To register for this virtual author talk, PLEASE CLICK HERE, or 
 on the link at the top right of this page.
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