Vanguard - The OxyContin Express
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Synopsis
Intimate, in-depth exploration of the issues people are talking about.

Peabody Award-winning exposé of the prescription drug epidemic and its effects on pill addicts, their families and the police officers struggling to keep up with the deadly game of supply and demand. Correspondent Mariana van Zeller follows America's largest pill pipeline from its epicenter in Broward County, Florida to the Appalachian Mountains, where "pillbillies" buy, sell and use narcotics trafficked in from the Sunshine State.



- SD only

Duration
1 x 60'
Definition
HD
Genre
Crime
Subgenre
Factual
Awards

Winner - Peabody Award 2010

Winner - Documentary Program: Substance Abuse, Prism Awards 2010

Honor - Television With a Conscience, Television Academy Award 2010