PURDUE

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Sackler Secret
3. Chapter Two - A Drug Like No Other
4. Chapter Three - Sales, Scripts, and Strategy
5. Chapter Four - Pain as a Market
6. Chapter Five - The FDA Stamp
7. Chapter Six - The First Deaths
8. Chapter Seven - The Pill Mill Pipeline
9. Chapter Eight - Appalachia Bleeds
10. Chapter Nine - Heroin Fills the Gap
11. Chapter Ten - The Pharma Hydra
12. Chapter Eleven - The Lawsuits Come
13. Chapter Twelve - The Bankruptcy Scam
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Museums Still Stand
15. Chapter Fourteen - A Nation Hooked
16. Chapter Fifteen - What They Built
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Cost

Excerpt

PROLOGUE IT DIDN’T LOOK like a revolution. No flashing red label. No skull and crossbones. Just a white pill in a clean orange bottle that was prescribed by a doctor, filled at a pharmacy, taken with water, and approved by the FDA. OxyContin didn’t kick down the door like a street drug. It walked in through the front. Hospitals. Clinics. Suburban homes. Coal towns. Indian reservations. Pill by pill, it made its way into the bloodstream of America. Not just physically, but economically, culturally, and legally. This wasn’t a drug cartel hiding in the shadows. This was a billion-dollar corporation sitting in boardrooms, giving keynote speeches, and sponsoring museum wings. It was supposed to...