Скачать или смотреть Tandy Culpepper Talks To Susan Bartz Herrick About Her Gripping Memoir "Slow Dancing With The Devil"

In 2021 alone more than 60 thousand of the 80 thousand overdose deaths in the United States were due to opiods. One of those who died was 30-year-old Robert “Luke” Paschal, whose mother, Susan Bartz Herrick, has penned the mother-son memoir, Slow Dancing with the Devil: A Son’s Substance Use Disorder, A Mother’s Anguish.

In it, Herrick chronicles a catastrophic car crash that very nearly killed her son, Luke, who was airlifted to a hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to repair both his crushed chest and broken back. Numerous internal organs were also damaged.

Following his release from the hospital, Luke was prescribed oxycontin for pain management, and therein began Luke’s growing dependence on the drug, despite the fact that the drug’s manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, claimed that the drug had an extraordinarily low risk for addiction.

Herrick’s book is exhaustively researched. In fact, it reads like a primer for people living with substance use disorder and for their families and caretakers.

Tandy Culpepper talks with Susan about Luke and about her efforts to educate herself about the devil called substance use disorder.