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1) American pain: how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
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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...
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In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, "Brick" and "Wax, used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang associates, they looted pharmacies and robbed dealers, stealing over one million doses of prescription narcotics and heroin with a street value of more than $100 million.
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Based on twelve years of correspondence and interviews, an award-winning journalist investigates his father's old high school classmate, Dr. Paul Volkman, who was the central figure in a massive "pill mill" scheme in southern Ohio, which led to the overdose deaths of thirteen patients and at least twenty other deaths.
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