Opioid Epidemic

Drug overdose deaths jumped nearly 30% in the US last year—to the highest number ever recorded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Peter Canning has been a full-time paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut, for 25 years and recently published a new memoir called “Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic.” (Originally aired April 14th, 2021)