American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
by John Temple
View on GoodreadsA young ex-felon and his partners turned a South Florida pain clinic into the largest pill mill in the United States. John Temple follows Chris George, his twin brother Jeff and associate Derik Nolan through roughly 2007 to 2010, as patients from Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio came to them for oxycodone.
Core ideas
- Millions of pills: The flagship clinic, American Pain, first called South Florida Pain, dispensed prescriptions for millions of oxycodone pills, with doctors such as Cynthia Cadet on staff.
- The bigger picture: The book sets the clinic against Purdue Pharma's marketing of OxyContin and federal approval of oxycodone production quotas.
- The takedown: FBI and DEA investigators brought the operation down, ending in coordinated raids on its South Florida locations.
Published2015
Pages320
ISBN9781493026661
ReadAug 2023
