IS SHE CALLING BILL WILSON A MURDERER? –

Dec. 4, 2021 – That’s the thorny question raised in “Opioid Reckoning,” a new book published last month by University of Minnesota Press by independent scholar and Macalester College historian Amy C. Sullivan.

A provocative look at the limitations of conventional addiction treatment in the face of the modern opioid epidemic, the “reckoning” in Sullivan’s title stands for the collision between the polite traditions of getting sober in the Twelve Steps, and the need for ideology-free addiction medicine in the face of a deadly scourge.

“The key takeaway from the Minnesota model is the need for abstinence and following the program once you leave treatment,” Sullivan said in a recent phone interview. “You go to AA meetings and get a sponsor and keep going to AA meetings.

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