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A Coal Country Fight Against The Drug Companies That Delivered The Opioid Epidemic

Book cover for "Death in Mud Lick"

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize in the investigative reporting category, "Death in Mud Lick" is an investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities.

Written by Eric Eyre, "Death in Mud Lick" is the story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, that distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population of 382 people.

Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.
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