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"Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that teenagers and others were abusing its billion dollar "wonder" drug. But Justice Department officials balked a decade ago when it came to meting out justice, allowing an opioid...
3) American pain: how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
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* Finalist for the Edgar® Award in Best Fact Crime
* New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015"
* Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015"
* Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime
* Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015
The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortress-like former...
* New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015"
* Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015"
* Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime
* Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015
The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortress-like former...
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