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In-Depth: Hillbilly Heroin

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 ten 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.

English
  • Originally Aired April 11, 2011
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-14
  • Network A&E
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Created March 3, 2015 by
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Name Type Role
Eve Rodrick Writer
Eve Rodrick Director