Writer Kate O’Neill reflects on what she’s learned since her sister Madelyn Linsenmeir’s death in October 2018. “Since my sister died,” she writes in the final installment of her yearlong series, “I’ve been asked over and over what people can do to help others with opioid-use disorder. A year ago I didn’t have an answer. Now I have many.”
Kate O'Neill
In “Hooked: Stories and Solutions from Vermont’s Opioid Crisis,” writer Kate O’Neill explores the state’s opioid epidemic and efforts to address it using traditional journalism, narrative storytelling and her own experiences. Her sister, Madelyn Linsenmeir, died in October 2018 after years battling opioid addiction.
