American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1493026666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Temple lives with his wife and two sons in Morgantown, West Virginia. C-SPAN, the Washington Post, Raleigh News and Observer, and many other media outlets have covered him and his work, and before teaching he worked in newspapers for six years at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Greensboro News and Record, and the Tampa Tribune. John Temp
Fascinating. (Publishers Weekly)“John Temple’s American Pain takes you on a hysterically funny, yet equally tragic, tour of Florida’s pill mill industry as the painkiller epidemic was reaching a fever pitch. Temple details the brazen operations of some of America’s largest pill mills and how they thrived in plain sight for years before the government took action.”—Jason Ryan, author of Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on DrugsIn his masterful nonfiction book American Pain, John Temple lays bare the perfect storm of lax regulation, aggressive marketing, greed, and addiction that created an opioid epidemic. .Temple’s writing is propulsive (Foreword Magazine) . thoroughly reported. Journalism professor Temple dissects the criminal operation and documents the rise and fall of American Pain with precision and authority in this
The son of a South Florida home builder, Chris George grew up in ultra-rich Wellington, where Bill Gates, Springsteen, and Madonna kept houses. It includes addicts whose lives were devastated by American Pain’s drugs, and the federal agents and grieving mothers who labored for years to bring the clinic’s crew to justice.. Under their lab coats, the doctors carried guns—and it was all legal… sort of.American Pain was the brainchild of Chris George, a 27-year-old convicted drug felon. After the housing market stalled, a local doctor clued in the brothers to the burgeoning underground market for lightly regulated prescription painkillers. Just two years later Chris had raked in $40 million, and 90 percent of the pills his doctors prescribed flowed north to feed the rest of the country’s insatiable narcotics addiction. Former strippers operated the pharmacy, counting out pills and stashing cash in garbage bags. Thick-necked from weightlifting, he and his twin brother hung out with mobsters, invested in strip clubs, brawled with cops, and gri
A look at how the opium epidemic got its start Emilio Corsetti III I was aware that there was an opium epidemic, but I didn't know the specifics of how, when, and where it all started. This book was an eye opener.My ill-informed view of the opium problem was that people who were addicted to pain medication were buying the drugs. Best True Crime Book Ever Terry Cunningham American Pain is one of the best true crime books I ever read. The Pill Mills in Florida seriously contributed to the opiate epidemic we have in this country. I am from WV and have the highest rate of overdose death in the country.The book is like reading a susp. A great read. Kept my attention throughout What a treat to read a really good book. This was of particular interest to me not only because it is in Florida but also the whole pain medicine issue and how it is managed. It is a crime in itself that people who truly need this medicine are the ones truly pay