Generation Oxy
From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins
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2017
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-2357-3 (ISBN)
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-2357-3 (ISBN)
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The unforgettable story of Florida teenagers turned oxycodone traffickers
Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friends—clean cut, all-American high school kids—who stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription painkillers throughout the country, making millions in the process.
This true crime memoir details the three-year-long rise and collapse of the Barabas Criminal Enterprise, an opiod-pill trafficking ring founded by Douglas Dodd and his best friend on the wrestling team, Lance Barabas. Raised by an alcoholic mother and surrounded by drug-abusing relatives, Dodd got involved in narcotics at an early age. Their scheme to sell the drugs he was already consuming coincided with the explosion of prescription addicts who were traveling the “Oxy Express” to Florida for easy access to the pills they dubbed “hillbilly heroin.” Soon they were shipping forty thousand pills a month, with tens of thousands of dollars returning in hollowed-out teddy bears.
In Generation Oxy, Dodd recounts his time as a wannabe Scarface: bottle service at clubs, an arsenal of weapons that would make Dillinger blush, narrow escapes from the law, hordes of young women, and as many pills as he could swallow. And this was all before he was legally able to drink a beer, while still living with his grandmother. The good times came to an end when the DEA closed in and the twenty-year-old Dodd faced life in federal prison.
Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friends—clean cut, all-American high school kids—who stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription painkillers throughout the country, making millions in the process.
This true crime memoir details the three-year-long rise and collapse of the Barabas Criminal Enterprise, an opiod-pill trafficking ring founded by Douglas Dodd and his best friend on the wrestling team, Lance Barabas. Raised by an alcoholic mother and surrounded by drug-abusing relatives, Dodd got involved in narcotics at an early age. Their scheme to sell the drugs he was already consuming coincided with the explosion of prescription addicts who were traveling the “Oxy Express” to Florida for easy access to the pills they dubbed “hillbilly heroin.” Soon they were shipping forty thousand pills a month, with tens of thousands of dollars returning in hollowed-out teddy bears.
In Generation Oxy, Dodd recounts his time as a wannabe Scarface: bottle service at clubs, an arsenal of weapons that would make Dillinger blush, narrow escapes from the law, hordes of young women, and as many pills as he could swallow. And this was all before he was legally able to drink a beer, while still living with his grandmother. The good times came to an end when the DEA closed in and the twenty-year-old Dodd faced life in federal prison.
Douglas Dodd is an influential speaker, author, songwriter, and entrepreneur. After serving his time in prison for drug offenses, Douglas went back to college to study distribution management and inventory control. He has managed to turn his life experience and catastrophic events into a nationwide story. Dodd lives in Tampa, Florida. Matthew B. Cox met Douglas Dodd as a prison inmate. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he is the coauthor of Once a Gun Runner. Cox lives in Coleman, Florida. Mark Mallouk is the screenwriter of Black Mass and executive producer of Everest and Golden Globe Best Picture nominee Rush.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Mark Mallouk |
| Zusatzinfo | b-w photos |
| Verlagsort | New York, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 492 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5107-2357-9 / 1510723579 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5107-2357-3 / 9781510723573 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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