Canary in a Coal Mine: How a Rural Town and Its Only Doctor Alerted the Nation to a Catastrophic Opioid Crisis by William Cooke, Laura Ungar

Canary in a Coal Mine: How a Rural Town and Its Only Doctor Alerted the Nation to a Catastrophic Opioid Crisis

William Cooke, Laura Ungar

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction religion sociology informative inspiring medium-paced

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Dr. William Cooke, Indiana's Family Physician of the Year, was recently on the front lines of one of America's most devastatingly concentrated outbreaks of HIV, fueled by widespread opioid drug use in his community. The dual crisis in Austin made ...

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