"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