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

Eyre, Eric 1965- (Author).

Summary: "An urgent and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed and governmental corruption that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns"--book jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781982105310 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Part I. 1. A death in Mud Lick -- 2. Prescription for pain -- 3. Kings of Kermit -- 4. The Easter Bunny -- 5. Raided -- 6. Addicts' rights -- 7. A step up -- Part II. 8. A seismic shift -- 9. The Pekingese -- 10. Sustained outrage -- 11. The chase -- 12. Hunger games -- 13. The drop -- 14. Dragging and Lagging -- 15. A door cracked open -- Part III. 16. Eighteen words -- 17. A legal cartel -- 18. Home court -- 19. High noon -- 20. 780 millions pills, 1,728 death -- 21. Misery's price tag -- Part IV. 22. List of the dead -- 23. Damage control -- 24. A death in Marrowbone Creek -- 25. "How in God's name?" -- 26. Bankrupt -- 27. Paper and tapes -- 28. "What's the punishment?" -- 29. Whose pills? -- 30. Three feet deep -- Epilogue.