Generation Oxy: From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XCYBX6B |
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| Number of Pages | : | 581 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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A roller coaster ride of highs and lows as the kids make millions, Dodd and Cox’s book is a thoroughly enjoyable if chilling read.”Tim Newark, author of Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano “An original but classic tale of rags to riches. What a tale.”Michael Finkel, bestselling author of True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa “Generation Oxy is a compelling piece.”Jeff Tietz, reporter for Rolling Stone “Another compelling story of America's failed war on drugs,
After serving his time in prison for drug offenses, Douglas went back to college to study distribution management and inventory control. Cox met Douglas Dodd as a prison inmate. Cox lives in Coleman, Florida.Mark Malloukis the screenwriter of Black Mass, executive producer of Everest and Golden Globe Best Picture nominee Rush.. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he is the coauthor of O
This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription painkillers throughout the country, making millions in the process.This true crime memoir details the three-year-long rise and collapse of the Barabas Criminal Enterprise, an opiod-pill trafficking ring founded by Douglas Dodd and his best friend on the wrestling team, Lance Barabas. And this was all before he was legally able to drink a beer, while still living with his grandmother. Their scheme to sell the drugs he was already consuming coincided with the explosion of prescription addicts who were traveling the “Oxy Express” to Florida for easy access to the pills they dubbed “hillbilly heroin.” Soon they were shipping forty thousand pills a month, with tens of thousands