Necessary and beneficial guide!
Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review Overcoming Opioid Addiction by Adam Bisaga, MD.
I wanted to read this book because, as a librarian, I was hopeful that it could be a helpful guide and voice of wisdom and information to those who may need it most, whether for personal, family or friend use. Overcoming Opioid Addiction was written to give general knowledge of Opioids, the epidemic and addiction, for health-care professionals, family members and for addicted individuals. The book is sectioned into four parts, each concentrating on one of these areas. This fascinating but informative and helpful book opened my eyes to Opioids and helped me to better understand how addiction became an epidemic and how patients can be treated and overcome addiction. 5 stars for this necessary and beneficial guide to Opioid Use Disorder.

This was a very informative book! I battled opiod addiction for years and found it incredibly useful to be able to learn more about my addiction and ways I can help friends and continue on my path of sobriety!

I don't think that any book on addiction could be perfect because everyone has a different road when it comes to addiction and recovery. This book is wonderful and informational or parents or family with an addict but its important to remember no everyone will be the same.

I received a digital ARC from Netgalley for review. Aside from a few typos and some redundancy, this is an excellent resource for anyone in a community that struggles with opioid addiction. It emphasizes the need for medical treatment, insisting that treating opioid use disorder is more similar to treating life-long conditions such as diabetes rather than one-off detox with psychosocial treatment only. He backs this up with statistics showing high relapse rates for traditional, non-medical treatments and higher rates of success when medical treatment is included. Sections guide both addicts and family members through the physical effects of opioids on the brain, choices for treatment, what to expect, how to prepare for recovery, what the process will be like, and how to best keep off drugs long-term. Anyone in the medical field, in social services, education or government should read this book.

I am a librarian at a public, big city library, so this book resonated with me in a few ways. I have been trained in Narcan/Naloxene adminstration (though thankfully have never had to use this knowledge -- unlike some of my other coworkers).

I liked the tone of this book, the way it tells a story then delivers facts. Although -- this book reads a little too much like a textbook to be helpful to those who, perhaps, most need it. Regardless, others in the public sphere will find this book very useful.

The book presents a short introduction to the world of opioid use although it does not go into a lot of detail. The bulk of the book concentrates on the treatment and care of opioid users; particularly treatment using medical support through other narcotics. This is a guide for someone that is trying to get informed on the topic of opioid use and its treatments. The book is divided into four major parts; the first explains what the opioid use epidemic is and how it is affecting our society. The second part covers the opioid addiction treatment and challenges. The third part provides guidance to the families of opioid users. Finally, the fourth and last part of the book tries to give an idea of how the treatment works and what to expect during and after it. The book has an appendix where the author is explaining more about the different treatments. There are many books about the topic of opioid use, but they do not always explain how the medical treatment works in detail. This book offers readers a real and honest explanation of medical treatment for the opioid addiction. This is an excellent book to be read by anyone afflicted by this disease directly or indirectly. I received a free copy via NetGalley.