American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple
Summary: American Pain is a nonfiction investigation into the rise and fall of the largest pill mill in the United States, revealing how a group of young felons and complicit doctors fueled the opioid epidemic that devastated communities across America.
In essence, American Pain is a gripping, meticulously reported account of how a handful of entrepreneurs and doctors exploited a broken system, unleashing a public health disaster that continues to reverberate across the United States.
Human Cost and Law Enforcement Response
Temple interweaves the stories of those caught in the epidemic’s wake-patients, addicts, families, law enforcement, and medical professionals. The book opens with a harrowing scene: a fatal train crash involving American Pain patients, their car littered with prescription bottles and blue pills, a grim symbol of the crisis1
As overdose deaths mounted, law enforcement struggled to keep up. Traditional drug enforcement tactics were ineffective against clinics that operated under the guise of medical legitimacy. Investigators like DEA Special Agent Jennifer Turner eventually built cases using wiretaps and undercover operations, but shutting down the pill mills proved challenging due to legal ambiguities and the complicity of licensed doctors
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