TY - JOUR
T1 - A Little Magic
AU - Usher, Craigan
N1 - Funding Information:
Disclosure: Dr. Usher reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Despite advances in the neuroscience of addiction, progress in medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and legislative momentum, in 2017 more than 70,000 Americans died due to drug overdose.2,3 Clearly there are no perfect answers to the opioid crisis. Albeit messy, we must begin somewhere, and one upstream approach includes providing public education and reducing stigma such that people will reach out for help and find support readily accessible.4 Kate Messner's middle-reader novel, The Seventh Wish and Jarret Krosoczka's young adult−focused graphic memoir, Hey, Kiddo provide excellent starting points. This pair of books introduce what it is like to love someone who is addicted to drugs, and they do so without frightening readers away. As reviewer Anandam Hilde offers, these books seem “filled with truths, and a little magic.”
AB - Despite advances in the neuroscience of addiction, progress in medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and legislative momentum, in 2017 more than 70,000 Americans died due to drug overdose.2,3 Clearly there are no perfect answers to the opioid crisis. Albeit messy, we must begin somewhere, and one upstream approach includes providing public education and reducing stigma such that people will reach out for help and find support readily accessible.4 Kate Messner's middle-reader novel, The Seventh Wish and Jarret Krosoczka's young adult−focused graphic memoir, Hey, Kiddo provide excellent starting points. This pair of books introduce what it is like to love someone who is addicted to drugs, and they do so without frightening readers away. As reviewer Anandam Hilde offers, these books seem “filled with truths, and a little magic.”
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.009
M3 - Letter
C2 - 31229184
AN - SCOPUS:85067390676
VL - 58
SP - 735
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
SN - 0890-8567
IS - 7
ER -