Falkowski

In 2000, substance abuse analysts noticed an uptick in the number of people abusing prescription pain medicines, says Carol Falkowski, drug abuse strategy officer for the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

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David Morrissey stars as Falkowski, for whom sympathy was mitigated when he began an affair with a younger woman in the midst of the duress.

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Falkowski delivers a benediction: "I wouldn't do it any other way."

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

Wood, Falkowski, and Mulvey mill around, nervously watching spruce trees bend and listening to one side of the conversation.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

Falkowski drops a fly into the water first, rips it crosscurrent, and hangs on as his rod bends double, like a diviner's stick pointing the way to the mother lode.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

"Lodge fishing might be just as good," Falkowski muses as we loll about in the moss, 10 feet from the water.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

Wood and Falkowski stick their heads out the tent door to catch the sound, but I crawl to my sleeping bag to count the blue-haloed dots on the shimmering flanks of the brook trout that swim through my dreams.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

Five minutes later Mulvey and Falkowski whistle and wave paddles, semaphoring a find.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

Falkowski shouts, as the water boils with slashes of bronze and orange.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

And then, over the last four days, our foursome of paddlers -- Wood, myself, and our pals David Falkowski and Bill Mulvey -- endured a mind-numbing travel itinerary from the settled confines of North Carolina to the vast emptiness of the Labrador interior.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004