I recognize that the title of my book, Abstinence Kills, is provocative, but it is backed up by scientific evidence. For example, a study published in January 2024 reported that risks of fatal overdoses are as much as 77% higher for abstinence-based treatment programs than for people who did not seek any treatment at all for opioid use disorder.

“Abstinence Kills” is a valid statement for opioid addiction in the 21st century. It was less applicable even fifteen years ago, but how things have changed! The claim that abstinence kills is not applicable to other types of addiction, such as to alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamine, or tobacco, although many of the messages in this book also apply to these other addictions. 

I entitled this book Abstinence Kills because I believe that how we are approaching the treatment of opioid addiction is contributing to fatal overdoses. My main focus is not on selling a book but on getting my message out. 

This website is intended to supplement the book because not everyone reads books. To reach more people, I decided to put my message out in forms available to anyone with a smartphone. 

The information on this website is free, never behind a pay-wall. I seek to make information available in different formats that would be digestible to more people. I have a section of this website dedicated to Videos where visitors to my website can access my videos on TikTok, instagram, and other social media. I intend to put up written content in the form of blogs that cover key points. These are intended to be quick-reads that can be read on a smartphone in less than 3 to 5 minutes. 

Unfortunately, I can only convey a limited amount of information in a short video or blog. If you find it difficult to accept some things I say, it may be because part of the information you need is covered in a different video. For an in-depth explanation, it may be necessary to read the book.

Short-forms of messaging such as videos cannot provide any in-depth information. That’s why there is no substitute for the full book, which presents my ideas in their entirety.