02004cam a2200361Ii 4500 1333703033 OCoLC 20220928105253.0 220629s2022 nyuab e b 001 0 eng 2021053699 9781538737200 (OCoLC)1333703033 AJM n-us--- 338.4/76151 23/eng/20220106 Higham, Scott, author. 12130 American cartel : inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry / Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz. First edition. New York : Twelve, 2022. xiv, 400 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-385) and index. "American cartel is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the worst man-made drug epidemic in American history. It is the story of underdogs prevailing over corporate greed and political cowardice, persevering in the face of predicted failure, and how they found some semblance of justice for the families of the dead with the most complex civil litigation in American history."-- Provided by publisher. United States. Drug Enforcement Administration. 3815 Pharmaceutical industry United States. 12131 Opioid abuse United States. 12132 Drug control United States. 12133 Horwitz, Sari, author. 12134 .b175530361 ddc BOOK 28471 28471 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2022-09-28 30.00 0 338.4 HIGH 63927 2022-09-28 2022-09-28 BOOK 1