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

Author

Eric Eyre

Call Number

• 362.293 E98 (CEN)

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Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, 2020.

Physical Description

xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

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.