An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who’s serving the opioid epidemic’s longest term for illegal prescriptions — four life sentences Written in the tradition of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and True Crime Addict, combining Dopesick's heart rending portrayal of the epidemic's victims with Empire of Pain's examination of its perpetrators This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist’s lengthy relationship and years-long investigation into an old classmate of his father’s: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for a Nobel Prize after simultaneously earning his MD and his PhD in just four years, but is now currently serving four consecutive life sentences at federal prison in Arizona. Volkman, a graduate of the pr...

An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who’s serving the opioid epidemic’s longest term for illegal prescriptions — four life sentences Written in the tradition of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and True Crime Addict, combining Dopesick's heart rending portrayal of the epidemic's victims with Empire of Pain's examination of its perpetrators This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist’s lengthy relationship and years-long investigation into an old classmate of his father’s: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for a Nobel Prize after simultaneously earning his MD and his PhD in just four years, but is now currently serving four consecutive life sentences at federal prison in Arizona. Volkman, a graduate of the pr...