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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with a single dealer--who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics--journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question: why did her only die? She comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
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