Acknowledgments: The author especially wishes to thank Stephen Ahlert; Alisha Choquette;
Ellen Hopkins; Robert Kingwell, MD; Lauren Kramer; Brian and Donna Kull; and Leeann
Nielson, who shared their highly personal stories with me for this project, and the health-care
professionals social worker Sarah Gaskill; Earl Washburn, MD; and Tom Zimmerman, MD, who
shared their expertise.
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Names: Goldsmith, Connie, 1945– author.
Title: Addiction and overdose : confronting an American crisis / by Connie Goldsmith.
Description: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016033031 (print) | LCCN 2016047771 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512409536 (lb : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781512448610 (eb pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Drug addiction—United States—Juvenile literature. | Drug abuse—United States—
Juvenile literature. | Medication abuse—United States—Juvenile literature. | Narcotics—
Overdose—United States—Juvenile literature.
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THIS bOOk IS DEDICATED TO mY SISTER, KERRI, WhO BATTLED
THE TWIN DEmONS Of DEPRESSION AND OPIOID uSE FOR mANy YEAR S.
