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DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Philip Eil’s obsessive true crime investigat
 ion of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator\, who’s serving the opioid epidem
 ic’s longest term for illegal prescriptions — four life sentences.\n\nWritt
 en in the tradition of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and True Crime Addict\, com
 bining Dopesick’s heart rending portrayal of the epidemic’s victims with Em
 pire of Pain’s examination of its perpetrators\n\nThis haunting and propuls
 ive debut follows a journalist’s years-long investigation into his father’s
  old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman\, who once se
 emed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prest
 igious University of Chicago\, but is now serving four consecutive life sen
 tences at a federal prison in Arizona.\n\nVolkman was the central figure in
  a massive “pill mill” scheme in southern Ohio. His pain clinics accepted o
 nly cash\, employed armed guards\, and dispensed a torrent of opioid painki
 llers and other controlled substances. For nearly three years\, Volkman rem
 ained in business despite raids by law enforcement and complaints from pati
 ents’ family members. Prosecutors would ultimately link him to the overdose
  deaths of 13 patients\, though investigators explored his ties to at least
  20 other deaths.\n\nThis groundbreaking book is based on 12 years of corre
 spondence and interviews with Volkman. Eil also traveled to 19 states\, int
 erviewed more than 150 people\, and filed a Freedom of Information Act laws
 uit against the Drug Enforcement Administration that led to the release of 
 nearly 20\,000 pages of trial evidence.\n\nThe American opioid epidemic is\
 , like this book\, a true crime story. Through this one doctor’s story\, an
  era of unfathomable tragedy is brought down to a tangible\, and devastatin
 g\, human scale.
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SUMMARY:Prescription For Pain – How a Once-Promising Doctor became the "Pil
 l Mill Killer"
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