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301 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 31, 2020
The Hallmark of Crusading Journalism Is Sustained Outrage
—Title of an editorial by W.E. 'Ned' Chilton in the Charleston, WV Gazette, November 18, 1983, from p.81 of Death in Mud Lick
"If you're not angry, you're not paying attention."
I sat in my car, flipping through the pages. Nothing was blacked out, nothing was redacted. Cardinal was the top seller of prescription painkillers in West Virginia. It had saturated the state with hydrocodone and oxycodone--a combined 240 million pills between 2007 and 2012. That amounted to 130 pain pills for every resident. - p. 156