American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis

Timely: The opioid crisis is front-page news as the most deadly addiction crisis in US History, with nearly 50,000 deaths attributed to opioid overdoses in 2017.

Sales record: McMillian’s most recent book has a strong track in the trade, and TNP book The Radical Reader has sold over 12K copies.

Groundbreaking: No comparable collection exists on the crisis, and no book of comparable scope has been published - which is essential to grasp the contours of the crisis.

High Profile Foreword: Leslie Jamison is one of the nation’s most critically-acclaimed writers on issues of personal addiction.

All-star contributors: including Pulitzer Prize-winners and other nationally-celebrated writers.

Media track record: McMillian’s writing on pop culture has received glowing national review attention, in the New York Times, Harper’s, Salon.com and elsewhere.

Platform: McMillian and Jamison are media-savvy authors, each with personal stories of addiction that speak directly to the issues raised in the book.