Death in Mud Lick (häftad, eng)
Death in Mud Lick (häftad, eng)
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A New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year * 2021 Edgar Award Winner Best Fact Crime * A Lit Hub Best Book of The Year
From a Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, a powerful, (The New York Times) urgent, and heartbreaking account of the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities.
In a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, 12 million opioid pain pills were distributed in just three years to a town with a population of 382 peopleOne woman, after losing her brother to overdose, was desperate for justice. Debbie Preeces fight for accountability for her brothers death took her well beyond the Sav-Rite Pharmacy in coal country, ultimately leading to three of the biggest drug wholesalers in the country.
She was joined by a crusading lawyer and by local journalist, Eric Eyre, who uncovered a massive opioid pill-dumping scandal that shook the foundation of Americas largest drug companiesand won him a Pulitzer Prize.
Part Erin Brockovich, part Spotlight, Death in Mud Lick details the clandestine meetings with whistleblowers; a court fight to unseal filings that the drug distributors tried to keep hidden, a push to secure the DEA pill-shipment data, and the fallout after Eyres local paper, the Gazette-Mail, the smallest newspaper ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, broke the story.
Eyre follows the opioid shipments into individual counties, pharmacies, and homes in West Virginia and explains how thousands of Appalachians got hooked on prescription drugsresulting in the highest overdose rates in the countryBut despite the tragedy, there is also hope as citizens banded together to create positive changeand won.
A product of one reporters sustained outrage [and] a searing spotlight on the scope and human cost of corruption and negligence (The Washington Post) Eric Eyres intimate portrayal of a national public health crisis illuminates the shocking pattern of corporate greed and its repercussions for the citizens of West Virginiaand the nationto this day.
From a Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, a powerful, (The New York Times) urgent, and heartbreaking account of the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities.
In a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, 12 million opioid pain pills were distributed in just three years to a town with a population of 382 peopleOne woman, after losing her brother to overdose, was desperate for justice. Debbie Preeces fight for accountability for her brothers death took her well beyond the Sav-Rite Pharmacy in coal country, ultimately leading to three of the biggest drug wholesalers in the country.
She was joined by a crusading lawyer and by local journalist, Eric Eyre, who uncovered a massive opioid pill-dumping scandal that shook the foundation of Americas largest drug companiesand won him a Pulitzer Prize.
Part Erin Brockovich, part Spotlight, Death in Mud Lick details the clandestine meetings with whistleblowers; a court fight to unseal filings that the drug distributors tried to keep hidden, a push to secure the DEA pill-shipment data, and the fallout after Eyres local paper, the Gazette-Mail, the smallest newspaper ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, broke the story.
Eyre follows the opioid shipments into individual counties, pharmacies, and homes in West Virginia and explains how thousands of Appalachians got hooked on prescription drugsresulting in the highest overdose rates in the countryBut despite the tragedy, there is also hope as citizens banded together to create positive changeand won.
A product of one reporters sustained outrage [and] a searing spotlight on the scope and human cost of corruption and negligence (The Washington Post) Eric Eyres intimate portrayal of a national public health crisis illuminates the shocking pattern of corporate greed and its repercussions for the citizens of West Virginiaand the nationto this day.
| Format | Häftad |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2021-04-06 |
| ISBN | 9781982105327 |
Artikelnummer
2931010
EAN
9781982105327
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