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Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction and How People and Communities Can Heal | Brett Ann Stanciu
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What if society looked at addiction without judgement? Unstitched shares the powerful story of one librarian’s quest to understand the impact of addiction fed by stigma and inevitable secrecy. The opioid epidemic has hit people in communities large and small and across all socio-economic classes. What should each of us know about it, and do about it? Unstitched moves readers from feelings of helplessness and blame into empathy, ultimately helping friends, family, and community members separate the disease of addiction from the person underneath. A stranger, rumored to be a heroin addict, repeatedly breaks into the small-town library Brett Ann Stanciu runs. After she tries to get law enforcement to take meaningful action against him—elementary school children and young parents with babies frequent the place after all—he dies by suicide. When she realizes how little she knows about opioid misuse, she sets out on a mission, seeking insight from others, such as people in recovery, treatment providers, the town police chief, and Vermont's US attorney. Stanciu’s journey leads to compassionate generosity, renewed faith, and ultimately a measure of personal redemption as she realizes she has a role to play in helping the people of her community stitch themselves back together.
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Part memoir/part research, a librarian from a small Vermont town faces up to her own personal addiction as she studies the opioid crisis in Vermont. She lives in a town close to me & I loved her descriptions of living in VT and the efforts being made to understand & help those trying to break free from their addictions. Sometimes the information seems a bit simplistic, but overall I appreciated her attempts to understand a complicated situation.

Megabooks Very interesting to get a local perspective! 2y
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