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100 1  Higham, Scott,|eauthor. 
245 10 American cartel :|binside the battle to bring down the 
       opioid industry /|cScott Higham and Sari Horwitz. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bTwelve,|c2022. 
300    xiv, 400 pages :|billustration ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-385) and 
       index. 
520    "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 
       of 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. The lawyers and 
       investigators discovered hundreds of thousands of 
       confidential corporate emails and memos during courtroom 
       combat with legions of white-shoe law firms defending the 
       opioid industry. One breathtaking disclosure after another
       -from emails that mocked addicts to invoices chronicling 
       the rise of pill mills--showed the indifference of big 
       business to the epidemic's toll. Its narrative approach 
       echoes work such as A Civil Action and The Insider, moving
       dramatically between corporate boardrooms, courthouses, 
       lobbying firms, DEA field offices and Capitol Hill while 
       capturing the human toll of the epidemic on America's 
       streets. AMERICAN CARTEL is the story of those who were on
       the front lines of the fight to stop the human carnage. 
       Along the way, they suffer a string of defeats, some of 
       their careers destroyed by the very same government 
       officials who swore to uphold the law, before they finally
       prevail over some of the most powerful corporate and 
       political influences in the nation"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
610 10 United States.|bDrug Enforcement Administration. 
650  0 Pharmaceutical industry|zUnited States. 
650  0 Opioid abuse|zUnited States. 
650  0 Drug control|zUnited States. 
700 1  Horwitz, Sari,|eauthor.