America’s Failed Response to the Opioid Crisis with Author Shoshana Walter with Special Guest Host Barbara Kingsolver

America’s Failed Response to the Opioid Crisis with Author Shoshana Walter with Special Guest Host Barbara Kingsolver

In Rehab: An American Scandal, Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance and corruption which blight the drug rehabilitation industry. Today, 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. In 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. Register to participate in this urgent conversation and learn insight on how we might fix the system to save lives.

Shoshana 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 she has won the Knight Award for Public Service, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She is based in Oakland, California. Barbara Kingsolver is a novelist, essayist, and poet. 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.

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