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Eric Eyre's investigative book about the opioid epidemic in West Virginia was praised for its powerful storytelling and accurate tone about the crisis.
They're all pretty recent books. One came out last year and it just came out in paperback. It's called Death in Mud Lick, a coal country fight against the drug companies that delivered the opioid epid...
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Eric Eyre's investigative book about the opioid epidemic in West Virginia was praised for its powerful storytelling and accurate tone about the crisis.
They're all pretty recent books. One came out last year and it just came out in paperback. It's called Death in Mud Lick, a coal country fight against the drug companies that delivered the opioid epidemic. It's by a guy named Eric Eyre, who has been a longtime reporter in my hometown in Charleston, West Virginia, Pulitzer Prize winner. I just love this book because it is a wonderful story of how investigative journalism works and it got the tone right about what's heartbreaking, exploitive and absurd about the opioid epidemic.