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American Pain - How A Young Felon & His Ring of Doctors...by John Temple
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9781493026661
- Book Title
- American Pain : How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- True Crime, Psychology, History, Social Science
- Topic
- White Collar Crime, Sociology / General, Psychopathology / Addiction, United States / General, Criminology
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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* Finalist for the Edgar(R) Award in Best Fact Crime * New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015" * Suspense Magazine's "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 2015 The 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 Pain's 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 clinic's 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 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.
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Publisher
Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1493026666
ISBN-13
9781493026661
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222138700
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Pain : How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
White Collar Crime, Sociology / General, Psychopathology / Addiction, United States / General, Criminology
Publication Year
2016
Genre
True Crime, Psychology, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
1 Oz
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(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.
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Trade
Dewey Decimal
362.29
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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