he was works at a john dempsey hospital in farmington, connecticut.hout further ado, i'd like to welcome peter canning. hi, peter. oops, hold on, i think -- one second. there you go. >> greetings to everybody. thanks for attending. >> thanks so much for joining us. before we get started with your presentation, would you kill us a -- would you tell us a little bit about "killing season" for those who may not be familiar with your new book? >> okay. it just came out k and it's about my experiences as a paramedic over the past a 25 years and following the opioid epidemic. and as i'll get to in my presentation, i started to learn things in the course of my work, and i wanted to bring my experiences expect voices of my patients to other readers so that they could i be changed in the way i was changed and my views about the opioid epidemic. >> awesome. thank you so much. well, i'm looking forward to seeing your presentation, and i know our audience is as well. is peter's going to share his screen and go ahead with the presentation, and i will be with all of

in addition to being paramedic he is the ems coordinator another john dempsey hospital in farmington, confident. i'd like to welcome peter canning. hi, peter -- hang on. one second. there you go. >> greets to everybody. >> thank you for joining us. before we get started with your presentation would would you you tell us about "killing season." >> "killing season" is a book here just came out and it's about my experiences as a paramedic over the last 25 years and following the opioid epidemic. i'll tell you i started to learn things in the course of my work, and i wanted to bring my experiences and the voices of my patients to other read sores they could be changed in a way i was changed in my view about the opioid epidemic. >> i'm look forward to seeing your springs know your audience is as well. so here's going to share his screen and i'll be with you the chat and then we'll come back to audience questions during the second half of the event. >> okay, can you see that okay? >> yes. we can see your screen. >> all right. let's see here. >> this is a picture of hartford where i work. i'

injectug themselves in front of children but now in addition to being a paramedic and massimo john dempsey hospitals a part of that job so ars few years back so they do recall they fill in details i will read itt to you. upon arrival a 24 -year-old male unresponsive lying on themi floor of his bedroom. and states she last saw him alive one hour ago and then found them on the floor unconscious before calling 911. and has a history of heroin abuse and there's a needle next to him. and was not breathing. so what struck me about this not mother doing cpr on her child but this wasn't unusual and i myself had been on several calls that were similar. i began to h look around and said what is happening? what has come about that these tragedies are so commonplace? so there were two stories. the national story and is well known the opioid epidemic started with the rise of prescription pain pills the first one —- pharmaceutical companies advertise they were not addicted doctors and well-meaning didn't look into it as well as they should tended to push this quite liberally more pills were made availab

in addition to being of paramedic he's a coordinator at dupont health john dempsey hospital and. without further ado i biked to welcome peter canning. hi peter. there you go. >> greetings to everybody and thanks for attending. >> thank you so much for joining us. before we get started with your presentation would you tell us a little bit about "killing season" who may not be familiar? >> "killing season" just came out and it's about my experiences at a paramedic 25 years following the opioid epidemic and during my presentation i will tell you what i started to learn in the course of my work and i wanted to give the oasis of my patients of my patience to read or so they could be changed in a way that i was changed. >> thank you so much. i'm looking forward to seeing your presentation i know the audiences as well. go ahead and do the presentation i will be with all of you in the chat and they will welcome back to audio session during the second half of the event. >> can you see that okay? >> we can see your screen. this is a picture of city avenue in hartford where i worked. i've b