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

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

When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five years ago, he believed drug users were victims only of their own character flaws. Canning began aski…

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