In his new book, A Walk Down Misery Street, Petr Nemirovskiy serves as a compassionate witness to the diverse lives of substance abusers in a hectic outpatient drug treatment clinic and ED at the hospital in New York City. Although the accounts are fictional, Mr. Nemirovskiy draws on his real-world experiences. As a certified substance abuse clinician, he depicts a unique and candid perspective of the lives of drug users, as well as the dysfunctional drug treatment system in the United States. 

With an eye for vivid detail and compelling characters, Mr. Nemirovskiy communicates these underlying themes through a series of engaging anecdotes, making both the patients and the coworkers he encountered in his work come alive for the reader. The themes he addresses in A Walk Down Misery Street are particularly relevant today, as the United States experiences a growing wide-spread opioid use and overdose epidemic.  

The author’s decision to frame the narrative with personal experiences, particularly those that describe how he came to work with people with substance use problems, adds important context and authenticity to the stories, and rich complexity to the characters. His unique accounts are especially engaging and relatable, and are likely to appeal to a broad range of readers.

Turning the pages, chapter after chapter down misery lane, the reader embarks on an exciting journey with plot twists that include robbery, attempted murder, resuscitation of an overdose patient, and many truthful and painful conversations with struggling drug addicts of New York City. This novel possesses artistic merit with elements of surprise that will captivate the reader in suspense like thrilling cinema.