Description: American Pain by John Temple * Finalist for the Edgar(R) Award in Best Fact Crime * New York Post, "The Posts Favorite Books of 2015" * Suspense Magazines "Best True Crime Books of 2015" * Gold Medal Winner for Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime * Publishers Weekly, Big Indie... FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description * Finalist for the Edgar® Award in Best Fact Crime * New York Post, "The Posts Favorite Books of 2015"* Suspense Magazines "Best True Crime Books of 2015"* Finalist for Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime * Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015The 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 bank building, American Pains doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscle-heads ran the clinics security. Former strippers operated the pharmacy, counting out pills and stashing cash in garbage bags. 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. The son of a South Florida home builder, Chris George grew up in ultra-rich Wellington, where Bill Gates, Springsteen, and Madonna kept houses. Thick-necked from weightlifting, he and his twin brother hung out with mobsters, invested in strip clubs, brawled with cops, and grinned for their mug shots. After the housing market stalled, a local doctor clued in the brothers to the burgeoning underground market for lightly regulated prescription painkillers. In Florida, pain clinics could dispense the meds, and no one tracked the patients. Seizing the opportunity, Chris George teamed up with the doctor, and word got out. 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 countrys insatiable narcotics addiction. Meanwhile, hundreds more pain clinics in the mold of American Pain had popped up in the Sunshine State, creating a gigantic new drug industry.American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill, and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis, the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. The narrative swings back and forth between Florida and Kentucky, and is populated by a gaudy and diverse cast of characters. This includes the incongruous band of wealthy bad boys, thugs and esteemed physicians who built American Pain, as well as penniless Kentucky clans who transformed themselves into painkiller trafficking rings. It includes addicts whose lives were devastated by American Pains drugs, and the federal agents and grieving mothers who labored for years to bring the clinics crew to justice. Author Biography John Temple is a professor of journalism at West Virginia University and the author of Deadhouse and The Last Lawyer, the latter of which won the Scribes Award given by the Society of Legal Writers. 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. Temple lives with his wife and two sons in Morgantown, West Virginia. Review Fascinating. . . . thoroughly reported. . . . American Pain offers a window into Americas drug-addiction epidemic. * The Washington Post *(Starred Review). . . . [An] exhilarating blow-by-blow account. . . . Journalism professor Temple dissects the . . . criminal operation and documents the rise and fall of American Pain with precision and authority in this highly readable true crime account. * Publishers Weekly *"John Temples American Pain takes you on a hysterically funny, yet equally tragic, tour of Floridas pill mill industry as the painkiller epidemic was reaching a fever pitch.... a must-read for anyone trying to understand this government-sanctioned drug and the destructive power of Big Pharma."—Melisa Wallack, Oscar-nominated co-writer of Dallas Buyers Club"American Pain made me angrier with every page. Why? Because John Temple has so adeptly reported this story of how a handful of criminals and shady doctors in Florida profited from the poverty and addiction of the Appalachian South." —James Higdon, national bestselling author of The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicates Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History"John Temples American Pain is as addicting a read as the little pills he writes about. Temple details the brazen operations of some of Americas 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. .. .Temples writing is propulsive * Foreword Reviews * Long Description * Finalist for the Edgar Review Quote (Starred Review). . . . [An] exhilarating blow-by-blow account. . . . Journalism professor Temple dissects the . . . criminal operation and documents the rise and fall of American Pain with precision and authority in this highly readable true crime account. Details ISBN1493026666 Author John Temple Pages 320 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Year 2016 ISBN-10 1493026666 ISBN-13 9781493026661 Format Paperback Imprint The Lyons Press Place of Publication Guilford Country of Publication United States Short Title AMER PAIN Language English Media Book Publication Date 2016-08-01 UK Release Date 2016-08-01 AU Release Date 2016-08-01 NZ Release Date 2016-08-01 US Release Date 2016-08-01 Subtitle How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed Americas Deadliest Drug Epidemic Alternative 9781493007387 DEWEY 363.450973 Audience General Illustrations Illustrations; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9781493026661
Book Title: American Pain
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Item Height: 226 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27 g
Author: John Temple
Item Width: 151 mm
Format: Paperback
