Edward Bisch
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Prescription for Pain
- How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer"
- By: Philip Eil
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A well-done, thorough account
- By Amazon Customer on 01-22-25
- Prescription for Pain
- How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer"
- By: Philip Eil
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
Unique insight inside the mind of a deadly doctor
Reviewed: 04-13-24
Bad guys never view themselves as bad guys , even the deadly one’s and the unique author access to one of the baddest makes for a fascinating read to one of the deadliest chapters in American history ❤️🩹
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Pain Killer
- An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
- By: Barry Meier
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 300
Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink. Meanwhile, the drugmaker’s owners, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, whose names adorn museums worldwide, made enormous fortunes from the commercial success of OxyContin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Infuriating and Compelling
- By TiffanyD on 12-24-18
- Pain Killer
- An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
- By: Barry Meier
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
2003 original is masterfully updated
Reviewed: 11-10-22
Originally published in 2003 and if government officials would of just followed the evidence…. Masterfully updated and chapter 13 alone is worth the purchase. PAINKILLER will also soon air on Netflix and should be dynamite
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28,946
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26,167
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Story5 out of 5 stars 26,101
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Masterful tale and not all fiction
Reviewed: 10-26-22
I usually don’t listen to fiction but this masterfully had you emotionally invested in the characters while working in the diabolical and factual way Purdue Pharma’s greed destroyed so many that could never be fully accounted for while busting some common biases.
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When McKinsey Comes to Town
- The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
- By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 381
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 381
In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Bogdanich and Forsythe have penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey by conducting hundreds of interviews, obtaining tens of thousands of revelatory documents, and following rule #1 of investigative reporting: Follow the money. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shows systemic problems in McKinsey's culture
- By GA on 10-15-22
- When McKinsey Comes to Town
- The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
- By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Money make more no matter the co$t to society
Reviewed: 10-06-22
Whether it was coaching the Sackler family owners of Purdue Pharma and exporting their schemes to other companies while the death toll mushroomed or helping China while they imprisoned a whole minority population the lack of a moral compass is astounding. The curtain has been finally lifted on their EVIL.
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American Cartel
- Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
- By: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 195
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 172
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Story5 out of 5 stars 169
The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters who first uncovered the dimensions of the deluge of pain pills that ravaged the country and the complicity of a near-omnipotent drug cartel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must listen.
- By JAFO on 07-29-22
- American Cartel
- Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
- By: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
Jaw dropping true crime story masterfully orated
Reviewed: 07-14-22
This page turner reveals that front line agents were trying to save lives but they were thwarted and even persecuted by some of their former colleagues who went through the revolving door of government to the industry they once policed and regulated.
Having lost my son in 2001 and following closely the mushrooming opioid epidemic I always wondered why no one in power was doing anything concrete to stop it? Now the sickening details are being revealed.
My hope is this book generates more jaw dropping outrage not at just towards the people who participated but to the system that actually encouraged the nefarious behavior that has claimed over a million lives and counting.
This is a true crime book and with 1 in 3 Americans now affected by drug use the system needs to change and people need to know the truths in this jaw dropping book.
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,510
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,287
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283
Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent book about the problem with the progressive movement
- By Amazon Customer on 10-18-21
- San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Eye opening
Reviewed: 01-29-22
Common sense solutions to a worsening catastrophe. You can’t fix a problem until you properly identify it and this book accomplished that. 👍👍
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Unsettled
- How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis
- By: Ryan Hampton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
A shocking inside account of reckless capitalism and injustice in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Death of us all!
- By Mary Claire McCarthy on 03-10-22
- Unsettled
- How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis
- By: Ryan Hampton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Bankruptcy SCAM exposed !
Reviewed: 10-27-21
SECRECY has been the Sackler’s shield for years and why it took so long to stop them but as Ryan says justice was NOT done. Ryan reveals some of the secrets which highlights the need for bankruptcy reform that is now possible due to this SCAM that will go down as one of the most infamous in bankruptcy history.
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9,012
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,853
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,809
The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Full Account of the Sackler Conspiracy
- By Edward Bisch on 04-13-21
- Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Full Account of the Sackler Conspiracy
Reviewed: 04-13-21
Since losing my son in 2001 and living much of the book , I can attest that this book covers it all and I believe anyone who listens to this will come to one conclusion that this is a CRIME story.
Only the SacklerACT can prevent a horrible ending to this chapter in history that Patrick masterfully chronicled.
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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- By: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 238
In the best-selling tradition of Hampton Sides’ In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions - the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book - missing maps :(
- By Stephen on 01-20-21
- Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- By: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Made me appreciate the simple things
Reviewed: 03-09-21
While listening I imagined being there and what the brave sailors went through on a good day let alone the desperate situation they were in. Amazing any of them survived to tell the story and build a legend.
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American Pain
- How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
- By: John Temple
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,209
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 narrative, which swings back and forth between Florida and Kentucky, is populated by a diverse cast of characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now I understand the problem
- By Amazon Customer in Sanford NC on 07-07-16
- American Pain
- How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
- By: John Temple
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Eye opening book
Reviewed: 01-23-21
Professor Temple shows how lax Florida laws were so outrageous that the criminals who ran the pill mills could not even believe they were allowed to do it until their greed and overwhelming evidence caught up to them. Compared to the millions of pills they put on
the streets all involved got off light especially the so called doctors.
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