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SUMMARY:America's Failed Response to the Opioid Crisis with Author Shoshana Walter and Barbara Kingsolver
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special conversation between 
 award-winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning 
 author Barbara Kingsolver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An 
 American Scandal. In this work\, Walter\, a Pulitzer finalist\, exposes the 
 country’s failed response to the opioid crisis\, and the malfeasance\, 
 corruption\, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation 
 industry.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister 
 here:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday\, more people have access to 
 treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer is that 
 in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people get a real 
 chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths\, our default 
 response is still to punish\, while rehabs across the United States fail to 
 incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit patients. \n\nIn 
 this book\, you’ll find the stories of four people who represent the 
 failures of the rehab-industrial complex\, and the ways our treatment 
 system often prevents recovery. April is a black mom in Philadelphia\, who 
 witnessed firsthand how the government’s punitive response to the crack 
 epidemic 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 prison. 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 mother from a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles\, whose son died in 
 a sober living home. She began investigating for-profit treatment 
 programs—yet law enforcement and regulators routinely ignored her 
 warnings\, allowing rehab patients to die\, again and again. Larry is a 
 surgeon who himself struggled with addiction\, and would eventually become 
 one of the first Suboxone prescribers in the nation\, drawing the scrutiny 
 of the Drug Enforcement Administration. \n\nBe sure to register now to 
 participate in this urgent conversation and learn insight on how we might 
 fix the system to save lives.\n\nAbout the Author: \n\nShoshana Walter is a 
 reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. Her 
 reporting has been honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Selden 
 Ring\, and she has won the Knight Award for Public Service\, the Edward R. 
 Murrow Award\, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She started 
 her work on the treatment system at The Center for Investigative 
 Reporting\, where her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, in 
 newspapers\, and on NPR stations across the country. She is based in 
 Oakland\, California.\n\nAbout the Guest Host: \n\nBarbara Ellen Kingsolver 
 is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist\, essayist\, and poet. Her 
 widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible\, the tale of a missionary 
 family in the Congo\, and Animal\, Vegetable\, Miracle\, a nonfiction 
 account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023\, she was awarded 
 the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work 
 often focuses on topics such as social justice\, biodiversity\, and the 
 interaction between humans and their communities and 
 environments.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 
 Meeting: https://libraryc.org/washoecountylibrary/117067
LOCATION:Online Event
ORGANIZER;CN="John Andrews-Test":MAILTO:jandrews@washoecounty.us
CATEGORIES:Author Talk, Books & Reading
CONTACT;CN="John Andrews-Test":MAILTO:jandrews@washoecounty.us
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