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A virtual talk with Shoshana Walter
VIRTUAL | After the event date, watch the talk any time through Library Speakers Consortium
Award-winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver discuss Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In this work, Walter, a Pulitzer finalist, exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil that blight the drug rehabilitation industry.
Today, more people have access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer is that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people get a real chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths, our default response is still to punish, while rehabs across the United States fail to incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit patients. Rehab: An American Scandal presents stories of four people who represent the failures of the rehab-industrial complex, and the ways our treatment system often prevents recovery.
Shoshana Walter is a reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. Her reporting has been honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Selden Ring, and she has won the Knight Award for Public Service, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She started her work on the treatment system at The Center for Investigative Reporting, where her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, in newspapers, and on NPR stations across the country.
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Barbara Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on social justice, biodiversity, and the interactions between humans and their communities and environments.
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