Randolph R. Estwick's New Book 'Substance Abuse and Addiction: An Epidemic, an Emergency and a Disaster (EED)' is a Probing Gaze Into the War on Drugs

NEW PALTZ, N.Y., January 29, 2019 (Newswire.com) - ​Randolph R. Estwick, M.D., FACP, an academic who worked as a house physician at a drug rehab center, has completed his new book, “Substance Abuse and Addiction: An Epidemic, an Emergency and a Disaster (EED)”:  an incisive, staggering investigation into the drug epidemic.

The sad faces of abuse and addiction in poor and deprived communities and spread to affluent and insulated suburbs are exposed. The epidemic has invaded rural and farming communities and our school systems, where the drug pushers and victims are the very students; abuse affecting seniors and minorities at some facilities were also exposed as well as illicit prescribing, which resulted in arrests, and convictions were given full coverage.

War on drugs, a disappointment in spite of near trillion spent on eradication, interception, and erection of physical barriers. Communities already saturated by illicit drugs and addiction, flooded with fentanyl distributed in excess of prescription needs only to enhance profits and bonuses; no probity shown for health and safety of human beings.

Pros and cons of legalizing marijuana and the debilitating effects of tobacco and alcohol examined. Border patrols were applauded. Disparity in drug sentencing and incarceration criticized. Children born of addicted parents summarized, and treatment of abuse and addiction as illness was defended.

The author postulates that solution to the drug explosion lies within homes and communities, not in poppy fields of Central and South America. Death penalty, a knee-jerk reaction, always exempts the kingpins and producers. It solves nothing.

Published by Covenant Books of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Randolph R. Estwick’s new book is a straightforward explanation of a complex problem.

Estwick sifts through an incredible amount of information to distill the multifaceted issue into an elegant, if chilling, prognosis to help nudge influential leaders and social administrators in the right direction on the critical war against drugs.

Readers can purchase “Substance Abuse and Addiction: An Epidemic, an Emergency and a Disaster (EED)” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

Covenant books is an international Christian owned and operated publishing house based in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Covenant Books specializes in all genres of work which appeal to the Christian market. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Covenant Books at 843-507-8373.

Source: Covenant Books