One cold Oklahoma morning, Murthy was listening to Sam and Sheila, a couple who’d lost their son to opioids. The key message here is: Loneliness is about more than just being alone, and it’s a larger problem than you might think. It became clear to Murthy that in society today loneliness is a real problem. From town halls in Alabama to community meetings in North Carolina, the subject of loneliness cropped up almost every time.
And his conversations showed that issues like obesity and the opioid crisis were indeed priorities, but something else came up time and again. So after his appointment, he traveled across the United States on a listening tour. When Vivek Murthy, the author, was appointed the 19th surgeon general of the United States, he had some clear ideas about what he wanted to tackle: mental health, obesity, and the opioid crisis.īut he also wanted to understand people’s own priorities.
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