Download or read book Heartbroken Grief and Hope Inside the Opioid Crisis written by Matthew Ellis Mpe and published by Ellen Krohne. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartbroken is a unique blend of the history of opioid addiction in the U.S., the honesty and courage of families affected and strategies to provide healing and hope. Seven parents share their diverse journeys through the opioid crisis and the traumatic grief of losing a child to drug addiction, in the hope of shining a light into the darkness that can enter any of our families.And, maybe, just maybe, keep another child and their family from this heartbreak. Heartbroken - Grief and Hope Inside the Opioid Crisis: -The Opioid Crisis: How opioid use in the U.S. developed into the crisis we know today -Addiction: Seven parents share their intimate stories through addiction and loss -Grief: Techniques to help us support those grieving loss through drug addiction -Hope: Specific ways we can help to stem the opioid crisis and reduce the stigma of addiction and addiction loss -Prevention: What parents, and all of us, need to know about preventing drug misuse

Download or read book Overdose written by Benjamin Perrin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 BC Book Awards' George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature SHORTLISTED for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, for both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes SHORTLISTED for the 2021 J. W. Dafoe Book Prize SHORTLISTED for the 2020 Lane Anderson Award “Overdose is a necessary and searching investigation into a devastating epidemic that should never have happened. Benjamin Perrin painstakingly shows that it need not continue if we, as a society, heed the evidence.” —Gabor Maté M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction An astonishing and powerful look at the ongoing opioid crisis North America is in the middle of a health emergency. Life expectancies are declining. Someone is dying every two hours in Canada from illicit drug overdose. Fentanyl has become a looming presence—an opioid more powerful, pervasive, and deadly than any previous street drug. The victims are many—and often not whom we might expect. They include the poor and forgotten but also our neighbours: professionals, students, and parents. Despite the thousands of deaths, these victims have remained largely invisible. But not anymore. Benjamin Perrin, a law and policy expert, shines a light in this darkest of corners—and his findings challenge many assumptions about the crisis. Why do people use drugs despite the risk of overdosing? Can we crack down on the fentanyl supply? Do supervised consumption sites and providing “safe drugs” enable the problem? Which treatments work? Would decriminalizing all drugs help or do further harm? In this urgent and humane look at a devastating epidemic, Perrin draws on behind-the-scenes interviews with those on the frontlines, including undercover police officers, intelligence analysts, border agents, prosecutors, healthcare professionals, Indigenous organizations, activists, and people who use drugs. Not only does he unveil the many complexities of this situation, but he also offers a new way forward—one that may save thousands of lives.

Download or read book Hope Heartbreak written by Scott L. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father who lost his 20-year-old son to an overdose and refused to stay silent. A mother who fulfilled a promise to write an honest obituary if her 20-year-old daughter died from an overdose--and hasn't stopped telling their heartbreaking story. Carmen Capozzi and Michelle Schwartzmier are linked in a way that no parents ever should be. What happened to them can happen to anyone and their stories epitomize the tragedy and inspiration that author Scott Brown found while chronicling the opioid epidemic for almost a year. Featuring a foreword by two-time Stanley Cup winner and Pittsburgh Penguins star, Kevin Stevens, "Hope & Heartbreak: Beyond The Numbers of the Opiod Epidemic" takes readers through the grassroots of America's No. 1 health crisis and looks at it through the people who are living it. Their experiences shine a light on a complex problem to which there is no easy answer. Their stories will make you cry, smile, question--and can help you save someone you love.

Download or read book American Boy written by S. s Megale and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant and raw, American Boy is the story of a brother's fall through the eyes of a little sister. From childhood lightsaberopponent to an unrecognizable figure driving off into the night and stumbling up to federal court podiums, Megale chroniclesMatthew's journey through opioid addiction with brutal truth and unimaginable love. This firsthand biography shares unique insight into a now all too familiar and life-threatening phenomenon--what worked for Matthew and what didn't, mistakes along the way that challenge families to talk without shame about their loved one's addiction, and what communities can do to change the course of this historic epidemic in front of them.Written with haunting intimacy and surprising hope, Megale's account is a must read for anyone touched by substance abuse or grief. It is the portrait of Matt--his spirit and his warmth--but the story of her, too, and her fight to return to him with both urgency and ideas of forever.

Download or read book Life Rolls On written by Angie Gillette and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unimaginable. Heartbreaking. Shattered.One moment she was sitting next to her precious twenty-six-year-old son talking and watching movies, the next she found him lying on his bedroom floor, another victim of the opioid crisis in America that is shattering families. In this book, a mother will celebrate the life of her son and share how her family has faced the challenges of trying to keep moving on. Angie hopes to let others know that they are not alone in their struggles with addiction and loss. Through knowledge, understanding, and kindness we can all come together and provide support to each other in a world of difficult times and sorrow. Angie's goal is to help someone every day. She chooses to wake up and be positive while enjoying life to its fullest. She can do this because she has the support of her family, friends, and her angel Cody, who is always near.You will read about her tribute to her son, but also her honest trials, feelings, and ways of dealing with the loss of her son. Answers to questions like...Why? Could we have done more? Guilt. Living life with a person who suffers from addiction is like a roller coaster ride. One minute you are smiling and having fun as a family and the next your worst fears come true. Losing a child leaves a permanent hole in your heart. How do we overcome this trauma? How will we ever survive? Hope.In Life Rolls On, Author, Angie Gillette celebrates the life of her son and tells you about how her family pulled together to find the strength to move on and live life the way that they knew their son and brother would have wanted them to. They now live for him and themselves until they see him again.

Download or read book The Opioid Epidemic and the Addiction Crisis written by Elliott Smith and published by Lerner Publications TM. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The US has seen an alarming rise in the numbers of people addicted to and overdosing on opioid drugs, including oxycodone, codeine, fentanyl, and heroin. Learn about history of the opioid crisis, the science behind addiction, and how people help those in danger. Read WokeTM Books are created in partnership with Cicely Lewis, the Read Woke librarian. Inspired by a belief that knowledge is power, Read Woke Books seek to amplify the voices of people of the global majority (people who are of African, Arab, Asian, and Latin American descent and identify as not white), provide information about groups that have been disenfranchised, share perspectives of people who have been underrepresented or oppressed, challenge social norms and disrupt the status quo, and encourage readers to take action in their community.

Download or read book What the Heck is Opioid Addiction written by Quincy Sirko and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our elementary school, sadly, is filled with kids affected by the opioid crisis. We wanted a tool for them to learn about the problem, discuss it with friends and adults, and look to a future of hope where addiction science and medicine can help intervene in this tragedy. We hope that you and your loved ones find good information in our book. We are fifth graders at Baden Academy in Western Pennsylvania. This book was written as part of a research fellowship in our media lab. Find out more information on our website kids-vs-addictions.weebly.com.

Download or read book Healing Scarred Hearts written by Susan Hoemke and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this emotional memoir, Susán Hoemke divulges the heart-wrenching story of her son Hayden's eight-year battle with drug addiction, and his tragic death at age twenty two. Through the pain of losing a child, Susán unflinchingly relates the crimes that her son's desperation for a fix drove him to commit, and how the mental and physical impact of the drugs on his body turned her happy, creative son into a stranger in their home. The years surrounding Hayden's death have been some of the most difficult in the family's life, his addiction not only affecting him but all those around him. Rebuilding their home and family, and attempting to see light in the darkest days they'd ever experienced proved to be an incredibly difficult effort, but not impossible. Hoemke hopes that her family's story will serve as a wake-up call to people everywhere about the drug epidemic across this country, and as a song of hope for those suffering through what her family has.

Download or read book Opioid Odyssey written by Michael J. Murphy and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-01-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people in the United States have not been deeply and personally affected by the opioid crisis. Opioid Odyssey: Discoveries of Recovery Through Medication Assisted Treatment shines a clarifying light on the largely hidden but surprising truth of this much-discussed crisis. Whether it is a cousin, the son or daughter of a colleague, or a close neighbor who has fallen beneath the wave of opioid casualties, after completing Opioid Odyssey, you will understand the myriad causes of the explosion in opioid abuse, as well as the true basis of addiction itself. And perhaps most importantly, you will share the profound and powerful stories of those who have traversed the path to a positive destination. What precisely is this "opioid crisis?" For that matter, what is "drug addiction?" What, really, is the "opioid dependency" discussed by so many so-called medical experts? And who, exactly, are these "drug addicts" who suffer by the millions each year, and whose tragic fates are reported daily in the media? Friends, family members, neighbors and colleagues continue to struggle to understand the sad fates of those who until that moment were just like us. Parents sadly remember loving, cheerful children, coaches recall mentoring excited athletes, teachers describe helping earnest adolescents focus on long-desired life goals--goals that now seem lost forever. How did this happen? How can it make sense? How did my daughter, my son, my brother or sister, my neighbor, my office-mate, my best friend--become a drug addict? What, if anything, could I have done? And now, after hard personal struggle to understand and even accept what has happened--what can I do?Opioid Odyssey provides revealing, real-life information about the surprising foundations of drug dependency, as well as the dramatic and heartwarming stories of those who have followed it to the deepest depths and survived. Long-term, stable recovery from opioid addiction is possible, even probable. Treatment, if properly planned and delivered, has helped most return to loving families, to full participation in employment and relationships, and to stand proudly in their communities. The devil, of course, is in the details, and Opioid Odyssey delivers those details in a package that gives hope and deep understanding to all who have felt perplexed, frustrated and even heartbroken by the strange opioid phenomenon, illuminating the way to a compassionate and pragmatic solution.

Download or read book Do No Harm written by Harry Wiland and published by Turner. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the trusted companion to three PBS segments exploring the devastating effects of the opioid epidemic, which is the worst man-made epidemic in the history of our nation, and the programs redefining the treatment and recovery process.

Download or read book Letting Go written by Christine Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Hunt grew up in Columbus, Ohio, at the epicenter of the opioid epidemic. His painful life and death offers hope to families taking similar journeys through opioid addiction and beyond.

Download or read book The Untold Story of the Opioid Crisis in American Healthcare written by Michael Vasquez and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have personally witnessed the devastating impact of America's opioid epidemic. For over three decades, I worked in law enforcement and government, often in roles closely associated with the drug crisis. I began as a federal drug prosecutor in Los Angeles and served as the Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security, the Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Director of INTERPOL Washington. With drug overdose deaths at record levels, it has become undeniably evident that change is imperative. Despite substantial investments directed at tackling this issue, a viable solution to liberate Americans from the grip of opioid addiction has remained elusive. Mike, leveraging his expertise in healthcare technology and firsthand experience in addiction treatment, has ingeniously developed technology that sets itself apart from the rest, offering a beacon of hope in the fight against opioid addiction." Uttam Dhillon Former Acting Administrator, DEA "Opioid Clinical Management is working diligently to leverage technology to reduce the impact of substance use disorders and improve mental health across our nation - a mission we share. As lead author of the landmark Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Federal Parity Law), I have dedicated my post-congressional career to drive change in our nation's healthcare system and Mike is just one example of how it can happen." Hon. Patrick J. Kennedy

Download or read book The Opioid Crisis written by Duchess Harris and published by Essential Library. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Opioid Crisis examines the reasons behind the opioid epidemic in the United States and its far-reaching effect on people's everyday lives. The brain science behind opioid addiction is also explored, and the book encourages readers to form their own opinions. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. - from publisher.

Download or read book Opioid Addiction Treatment Options written by Dr Emily Anderson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world grappling with the opioid addiction crisis, "Opioid Addiction Treatment Options: Understanding, Healing, and Hope for a Way Forward" emerges as a guiding light, offering a profound exploration of the critical issues surrounding addiction and the journey towards recovery. In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Emily Anderson, a seasoned expert in addiction medicine, delves deep into the heart of the opioid crisis, demystifying the complexities of addiction and revealing the way forward. With compassion, clarity, and unwavering commitment, Dr. Anderson equips readers with the knowledge, tools, and hope they need to navigate the treacherous terrain of opioid addiction. Key Highlights: - Understanding Addiction: Dr. Anderson provides an insightful examination of the science behind addiction, dispelling common misconceptions and empowering readers with knowledge. - Treatment Landscape: Explore a wide array of treatment options, from Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) to holistic approaches, each offering a unique path to recovery. - Therapeutic Approaches: Learn about the transformative power of behavioral therapies, mindfulness, and holistic practices, all designed to heal not just the body but also the spirit. - Real Stories of Recovery: Discover firsthand accounts of individuals who have triumphed over addiction, offering inspiration and hope to those on their own journey. - A Vision for Tomorrow: Dr. Anderson presents an insightful look into the future of addiction treatment, highlighting emerging trends and innovative solutions. In "Opioid Addiction Treatment Options, " Dr. Emily Anderson brings together her extensive medical expertise and deep compassion to provide a beacon of hope for individuals and families affected by opioid addiction. With this book in your hands, you are not alone; you have a guide to understanding, a path to healing, and the unwavering hope for a brighter future. Don't wait. Purchase your copy now and take the first step towards a life free from the shackles of addiction. It's time to embrace understanding, healing, and hope.

Download or read book How to Fix a Broken Heart written by Guy Winch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted. Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing else. We feel nothing else. We care about nothing else. Yet while we wouldn’t expect someone to return to daily activities immediately after suffering a broken limb, heartbroken people are expected to function normally in their lives, despite the emotional pain they feel. Now psychologist Guy Winch imagines how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotion—if only we can understand how heartbreak works, we can begin to fix it. Through compelling research and new scientific studies, Winch reveals how and why heartbreak impacts our brain and our behavior in dramatic and unexpected ways, regardless of our age. Emotional pain lowers our ability to reason, to think creatively, to problem solve, and to function at our best. In How to Fix a Broken Heart he focuses on two types of emotional pain—romantic heartbreak and the heartbreak that results from the loss of a cherished pet. These experiences are both accompanied by severe grief responses, yet they are not deemed as important as, for example, a formal divorce or the loss of a close relative. As a result, we are often deprived of the recognition, support, and compassion afforded to those whose heartbreak is considered more significant. Our heart might be broken, but we do not have to break with it. Winch reveals that recovering from heartbreak always starts with a decision, a determination to move on when our mind is fighting to keep us stuck. We can take control of our lives and our minds and put ourselves on the path to healing. Winch offers a toolkit on how to handle and cope with a broken heart and how to, eventually, move on.

Download or read book With a Little Help from My Friends written by John Lennon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate friendship with this lyrical picture book that beautifully illustrates John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s world-renowned words from “With a Little Help from My Friends.” In this gorgeously illustrated Classic Board Book, the universally loved song “With a Little Help From My Friends” comes to life, proving that sometimes, all you need is a little help from your friends!

Download or read book The Secret of a Mommy s Love written by Ellen Krohne and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming children's picture book will be cherished by growing families. It tells three-year-old Benny's journey to find the secret of how a mommy's love works. A new sibling, a baby girl, is arriving soon to Benny's family. He is worried Mommy won't have enough love for him, his brother, Bill and the new baby. His three cousins help Benny discover the special family secret his Grandma and Grandpa share with them about how a mommy's love grows.