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Advance Praise

“Cover My Dreams in Ink is Jessie Dunleavy’s accounting of—and reckoning with—the life and death of her son Paul, who in 2017 fell victim to the opioid crisis. Partly by using poetry he wrote in his lifetime, Dunleavy searches for answers, fully presenting his life and their relationship, warts and all. It’s a powerful technique, and Cover My Dreams in Ink is a worthy elegy for a young man who never got the chance to fully become himself.”

—Ben Westhoff, award-winning investigative journalist, author of Fentanyl, Inc., How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

“Paul was a warm, creative, and loving individual who defied labels. He had many challenges, diagnoses, medications, and, tragically, self-medications. But he also had friends and loved ones, one of whom—his mother, Jessie Dunleavy—has given us this remarkable, searing memoir. Through it, she lets us love Paul, too, and opens our minds and hearts to the struggles of all who cope with disability, alienation, and addiction.”

—Roger Parloff, award-winning journalist, regular contributor to Yahoo Finance and Newsweek, former editor-at-large for Fortune, and former editor-in-chief of Opioid Watch

“Cover My Dreams in Ink is a book with a vital purpose. Jessie Dunleavy’s bravely told story of her son, Paul, relates how he, like so many others, was repeatedly let down by the educational, mental health and addiction treatment systems meant to protect him. It illustrates how stigma and misinformation around drug use greatly exacerbate drug-related harms. And it powerfully shows how his suffering and tragic death fueled her own journey into advocating for the harm reduction interventions, drug policy reforms and attitudinal changes that we desperately need.”

—Will Godfrey, human rights journalist, editor-in-chief of Filter, a contributor to The Nation, Salon, Pacific Standard, former editor-in-chief of TheFix, and founding editor-in-chief of The Influence and Substance.com

“Jessie Dunleavy’s memoir is a riveting reminder of the ultimate toll of the addiction crisis. An honest and relatable tale that hits home for far too many families. Cover My Dreams In Ink is a must read for any person wondering what it’s like to walk a lifetime in the shoes of a loved one suffering.”

—Ryan Hampton, national advocate and bestselling author of American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis--and How to End It

“A gut-wrenching and poignant memoir, Cover My Dreams in Ink, illuminates the multiple forces that, in concert, ultimately doomed Paul’s fight to live, and leaves the reader with a deepened understanding of the tragic reality that Paul’s death, like so many, was preventable, exposing the ways in which the war on drugs and an antiquated treatment ethos are killing people. Paul’s story instills a passion to stand up for the vulnerable and to rail against the multiple barriers to needed reform.”

—Benjamin A. Levenson, Founder, Origins Behavioral Healthcare, substance use disorder treatment expert, international advocate for humanitarian drug policy

“Jessie Dunleavy has written a beautiful memoir about her son Paul who died from a drug overdose at the age of 34. The book is a searing account of the dysfunctional and negligent US drug treatment system that failed her family. The tragedy of Paul’s death made the author into a fierce supporter of harm reduction, an advocate for medication-assisted recovery and an activist against the War on Drugs. The other bonus of Cover My Dreams in Ink is Paul’s poetry—each poem offers a glimpse into his humanity, into a life of loneliness and pain but also one of joy and connection.”

—Helen Redmond, LCSW, expert in substance use, multimedia journalist, senior editor for Filter Magazine, sought after speaker in the US and abroad, adjunct faculty Silver School of Social Work, New York University