without further adieu, i would like to welcome peter cannon. hi, peter. hang on, i think -- let me see. there we go. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for attending. can you talk about your new book "killing season". >> "killing season" is a book that just came out. it is about my experiences as a paramedic over the last 25 years in following the opioid epidemic. as i will get through in my presentation, i will tell you when i started to learn things in the course of my work, and i wanted to bring my experiences and the voices of my patients so they could be changed in the way i was changed in my view. >> thank you very much. i'm looking forward to seeing your presentation. i know our audience is as well. peter is going to share his screen and go ahead with the presentation. i will be with all of you in the chat. we will come back to audience questions during the second half of the event. >> okay. can you see that okay? >> yeah, we can see your screen. >> all right. let's see here. this is a picture of albany avenue in hartford, where i work. i've been