Dave Chase

By now, I think the majority of people here in the US know that we have a major problem with opioid addiction. Several excellent books have been written on the topic of how we got to this place. With this book, Dave Chase starts where the crisis left us, in a healthcare crisis, and he leads the way out. While the target audience is community leaders and others in leadership positions who are most able to affect change, this book can be read by anyone wanting to understand why the system is so broken and how we can fix it.

This is a complex topic concerning healthcare and politics, and there is just no way to make that kind of content light or, for most of us, particularly fun. But it is absolutely a vital topic that we all need to understand and work to correct. Chase does an excellent job of ripping the system into little pieces, then laying those pieces out for us in a way that makes sense. Once unraveled, he makes this complex topic seem simple, at least at its core.

Whether you're personally dealing with addiction, you know someone who is, or you're one of the few whose life hasn't somehow been touched by opioid addiction, the resulting healthcare crisis hurts us all equally. If you don't want to tackle all this material yourself, maybe buy a few copies and hand them out to city officials, doctors, church leaders, and anyone else in a position to lead the way toward change.… (mehr)