Intervention In-Depth: Hillbilly Heroin

Summary Scioto County, Ohio, is on the DEA list of top 10 places for prescription pill trafficking. The county has seen a 360 percent increase in fatal drug overdoses, with nine of every 10 of those deaths attributable to prescription painkillers. Dealers gets their pills from "pill mills," cash-only clinics that dispense prescription painkillers in mass quantities. We show how prescription drugs, especially "Hillbilly Heroin," the street name for Oxycodone, are devastating the region, and take viewers inside the pill mills with undercover cameras to expose the deadly business.

S9.E15 ∙ Intervention In-Depth: Hillbilly Heroin

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Candy Finnigan Jeff VanVonderen Ken Seeley Donna Chavous

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Genres : Drama Documentary

Release date : Apr 10, 2011

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : A&E Television

Language : English

Production companies : GRB Entertainment

Summary Scioto County, Ohio, is on the DEA list of top 10 places for prescription pill trafficking. The county has seen a 360 percent increase in fatal drug overdoses, with nine of every 10 of those deaths attributable to prescription painkillers. Dealers gets their pills from "pill mills," cash-only clinics that dispense prescription painkillers in mass quantities. We show how prescription drugs, especially "Hillbilly Heroin," the street name for Oxycodone, are devastating the region, and take viewers inside the pill mills with undercover cameras to expose the deadly business.

Details

Genres : Drama Documentary

Release date : Apr 10, 2011

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : A&E Television

Language : English

Production companies : GRB Entertainment

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