Presented by: Word Vancouver and Banyen Books and Sound

According to Dr. Gabor Maté, “Overdose is a necessary and searching investigation into an epidemic that should never have happened. Benjamin Perrin shows that it need not continue if we as a society heed the evidence.” Shortlisted for the 2021 BC Book Awards’ George Ryga Award, as well as for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and for both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize.

Hosted by: Ross McKeachie

Readers: Benjamin Perrin (Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis,Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)

Gabor Maté (In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, Knopf Random Vintage Canada; When the Body Says No, Knopf Random Vintage Canada)