American pain : how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
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Guilford, Connecticut : LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2015].
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Book
ISBN
9781493007387, 1493007386
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xv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Central Falls (Adams Memorial) - Adult Non-Fiction | 362.29 Tem | On Shelf |
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Published
Guilford, Connecticut : LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2015].
Language
English
ISBN
9781493007387, 1493007386
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.
Description
"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 country's 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 Pain's drugs, and the federal agents and grieving mothers who labored for years to bring the clinic's crew to justice." --,amazon.com
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Temple, J. (2015). American pain: how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic . LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Temple, John, 1969-. 2015. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic. LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Temple, John, 1969-. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Temple, John. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
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