Isolation and Stigma Drive Record Numbers of Opioid Overdoses

Drug overdose deaths jumped to record levels in 2020 according to the CDC. Opioids – and in particular the synthetic opioid fentanyl – appear to have driven that increase. Peter Canning has watched the opioid overdose crisis unfold from the front seat of an ambulance. The full-time paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut has published a memoir called “Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic.”