* Finalist for the Edgar (R) Award in Best Fact Crime * New York
Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015" * Suspense Magazine's
"Best True Crime Books of 2015" * Finalist for Foreword Reviews'
INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime * Publishers Weekly, Big
Indie Book of Fall 2015 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 bags. Under their lab coats, the doctors
carried guns-and it was all legal... sort of. American Pain was the
brainchild of Chris George, a 27-year-old convicted drug felon. The
son of a South Florida home builder, Chris George grew up in
ultra-rich Wellington, where Bill Gates, Springsteen, and Madonna
kept houses. Thick-necked from weightlifting, he and his twin
brother hung out with mobsters, invested in strip clubs, brawled
with cops, and grinned for their mug shots. After the housing
market stalled, a local doctor clued in the brothers to the
burgeoning underground market for lightly regulated prescription
painkillers. In Florida, pain clinics could dispense the meds, and
no one tracked the patients. Seizing the opportunity, Chris George
teamed up with the doctor, and word got out. Just two years later
Chris had raked in $40 million, and 90 percent of the pills his
doctors prescribed flowed north to feed the rest of the country's
insatiable narcotics addiction. Meanwhile, hundreds more pain
clinics in the mold of American Pain had popped up in the Sunshine
State, creating a gigantic new drug industry. American Pain
chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill, and
how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis, the
deadliest drug epidemic in American history. The narrative swings
back and forth between Florida and Kentucky, and is populated by a
gaudy and diverse cast of characters. This includes the incongruous
band of wealthy bad boys, thugs and esteemed physicians who built
American Pain, as well as penniless Kentucky clans who transformed
themselves into painkiller trafficking rings. It includes addicts
whose lives were devastated by American Pain's drugs, and the
federal agents and grieving mothers who labored for years to bring
the clinic's crew to justice.
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