Prescription For Death

March, 2014

How Painkillers destroyed the town of War, West VirginiaHOW PAINKILLERS DESTROYED THE TOWN OF WAR, WEST VIRGINIAplayboy MAG.vi\tMARCH 2014 63y 1*rft£CW>€tl' C& a big guy, six-foot-three andmore than 200 pounds. When I met him back in 201 1, he was sitting in the fall sunshine on his father's porch in a little town in West Virginia, wearing a blue polo shirt and sporting a neat goatee. All in all, he looked pretty good for a hardcore junkie.John, then 36, had been hooked for years on prescription...

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