Opioid lawsuits: Camden County awarded $32 million from J&J, three others in opioid suitĬhronicling the opioid epidemic and its fallout They hired "patient advocates," paying chronic pain sufferers who worried they'd be left without drugs they considered a lifeline. Bisch initially listened as the company downplayed the drug's addictive properties and told him sales and profits were suffering as a result of his efforts. By the time Eddie Bisch died, Paolino already had lost his medical license (he was eventually sentenced to 30 to 120 years in prison) but the damage was done, the carnage unleashed.īisch built a website to track deaths from Ox圜ontin representatives from Purdue Pharma reached out to him, efforts at damage control.
But for me it was also a crash course in a new world - kids weren't dying until (pills) hit the streets."īisch learned that a Philadelphia doctor, Richard Paolino, had "flooded the streets" of Philadelphia neighborhoods with Ox圜ontin, selling prescriptions to drug dealers. Nikki King, an Appalachian native whose youth and take-no-crap attitude were both blessings and curses: She could see her way around obstacles others couldn't, but she was so immersed in her harm reduction efforts she risked burning herself out. Michelle Mathis, who runs an outreach with her wife in Mount Airy, North Carolina, a town thought to be the inspiration for Andy Griffith's fictional Mayberry she describes herself "like the grandma that does syringe exchange and delivers biscuits." Nan Goldin, a renowned photographer whose large-scale pop-up protests have brought attention to the opioid epidemic and shame to the Sackler family, whose company, Purdue Pharma, reaped billions in profits. Tim Nolan, a nurse practitioner who treats the forgotten and forsaken in rural North Carolina with medical supplies pulled from the back of his Prius.
The heroes in Beth Macy's latest book are "stone rollers," people who, like the women of Bethany in the biblical story of Lazarus, move heavy rocks while defying custom to raise others from the slow spiritual (and often physical) death of addiction.
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