International Overdose Awareness Day

International Overdose Awareness Day is August 23, 2023. Time to Remember. Time to Act.

Updated August 18, 2023
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Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America
Macy, Beth
Paper Book
Now a major TV series on Disney+ 'A shocking investigation... Dopesick is essential' The Times 'Unfolds with all the pace of a thriller' Observer 'A deep - and deeply needed - look into the troubled soul of America' Tom Hanks ...
Never enough : the neuroscience and experience of addiction
Grisel, Judith
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare page-turning work of science that draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's...
In the realm of hungry ghosts : close encounters with addiction
Maté, Gabor
Paper Book
To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start... Dr Gabor Mate is one of the world's most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. His radical findings - based on decades of work with patients challenged by catastrophic drug addiction and mental illness - are...
American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts
McGreal, Chris.
Paper Book
A devastating portrait of America's opioid painkiller epidemic - the deadliest drug crisis in US history.
If you love me : a mother's memoir of a daughter's opioid addiction
Cavanagh, Maureen
Paper Book
Maureen Cavanagh's gripping memoir If You Love Me is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles--and ultimately reckons with--substance use disorder. Fast-paced and heartwarming, devastating and...
Empire of pain the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation...
Transcendent Kingdom
Gyasi, Yaa.
Paper Book
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty...

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