Join us to discuss the book Canary in the Coal Mine by Dr Will Cooke. The book deals with the timely topic of substa nce addiction\, and centers on Scott County Indiana. Dr Cooke will be at E VPL on October 14 at Central Library to talk about his book with the publi c. All are welcome to attend this free event.
\n"When Dr Will Cooke\ , an idealistic young physician just out of medical training\, set up prac tice in the small community of Austin\, Indiana\, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty\, addiction\, and life-threat ening illnesses. Soon\, however\, he would find himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: an opioid epidemic and the wor st drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in a rural American community. Confr onted with Austin&rsquo\;s hidden secrets\, Dr Cooke decided he had to do something about them. But in taking up the fight for Austin&rsquo\;s peopl e\, he would have to battle some unanticipated foes: prejudice\, political resistance\, an entrenched bureaucracy&mdash\;and the dark despair that t hreatened to overwhelm his own soul."--National Network of Libraries of Me dicine
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