John Temple is an associate professor of journalism at the West Virginia University Reed College of Media. He is the author of The Last Lawyer, which won the Scribes Book Award from the American Society of Legal Writers, and Deadhouse. He lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, with his wife, Hollee, and their two boys.
The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortresslike former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of custome...[SEE MORE]