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Eyre, Eric, 1965- author.

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

First Scribner hardcover edition.

New York : Scribner, 2020.

©2020

xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm

"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 of 382 people. Debbie Preece lost her brother to opioid overdose, and was desperate for justice. Joined by a crusading lawyer and a local journalist, they uncovered a massive opioid pill-dumping scandal that shook the foundation of America's largest drug companies-- and won Eyre a Pulitzer Prize. Here Eyre explains how thousands of Appalachians got hooked on prescription drugs-- and how the citizens banded together to create positive change. -- adapted from jacket

Opioid abuse -- West Virginia.

Drug abuse -- West Virginia.

Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- West Virginia.

Drugs -- Overdose -- West Virginia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.

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.

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