Death in Mud Lick : a coal country fight against the drug companies that delivered the opioid epidemic / Eric Eyre.

"An urgent and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed and governmental corruption that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns"--Dust jacket flap. A pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eyre, Eric, 1965- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2020.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Opioid abuse > West Virginia.
Drug abuse > West Virginia.
Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices > West Virginia.
Drugs > Overdose > West Virginia.
Opioid Epidemic > etiology.
Opioid-Related Disorders > epidemiology.
Analgesics, Opioid > supply & distribution.
Drug Industry > ethics.
Drug Industry > legislation & jurisprudence.
Inappropriate Prescribing > ethics.
Liability, Legal.
Prescription Drug Misuse.
West Virginia > epidemiology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction.
Drug abuse.
Drugs > Overdose.
Opioid abuse.
Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices.
West Virginia.
Drugs.
Informational works.
Genre:
Informational works.
Physical Description:xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A death in Mud Lick
  • Prescription for pain
  • Kings of Kermit
  • The Easter Bunny
  • Raided
  • Addicts' rights
  • A step up
  • A seismic shift
  • The Pekingese
  • Sustained outrage
  • The chase
  • Hunger games
  • The drop
  • Dragging and Lagging
  • A door cracked open
  • Eighteen words
  • A legal cartel
  • Home court
  • High noon
  • 780 millions pills, 1,728 death
  • Misery's price tag
  • List of the dead
  • Damage control
  • A death in Marrowbone Creek
  • "How in God's name?"
  • Bankrupt
  • Paper and tapes
  • "What's the punishment?"
  • Whose pills?
  • Three foot deep.