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John Temple is a veteran investigative journalist whose books illuminate significant issues in American life.
His forthcoming book, Up in Arms, details Cliven and Ammon Bundy's multiple standoffs with the federal government. It will appear in June 2019.
Temple’s last book, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic, was named a New York Post “Favorite Book of 2015” and was a 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee. American Pain chronicles how two young felons built the largest pill mill in the United States and also explains the roots of the opioid epidemic.
Temple also wrote The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates (2009) and Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office (2005). The La ...more

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	American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic 4.26 avg rating — 2,082 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner's Office 3.63 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Up In Arms: How The Bundy Family Hijacked Federal Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement 4.02 avg rating — 122 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Lawyer: The Fight To Save Death Row Inmates 4.19 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Space Force: Into the Unknown by John Temple (Goodreads Author), Jilly Prather (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SPACE FORCE: STRANDED by John Temple (Goodreads Author), M H Tahir (Illustrator), Margaret Temple (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Space in Time: Across the Kt 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Irish Rebellion: Or A History Of The Beginnings And First Progress Of The General Rebellion Raised Within The Kingdom Of Ireland, In The Year 1641 (1751) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bowdoin and Temple Papers; pt. [I]-II. [1756-1809 by John Temple (Goodreads Author), James Bowdoin, Thomas Lindall Winthrop 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lonesome Gun 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“problem-solution marketing. They would market and publicize the problem of untreated pain. Then they’d promote the solution: OxyContin.”
― John Temple, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

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“It didn’t mention that the “article” was a letter to the editor, published in 1980, and that its conclusions were based on a simple review of the charts of hospitalized patients, not a scientific study of long-term narcotic use. But the idea was out there, published in a scientific journal: Fewer than 1 percent of pain patients would develop addictions.”
― John Temple, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

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“Between 1996 and 2002, Purdue funded more than twenty thousand pain-related educational programs, almost ten a day, seven days a week. During the same years, Purdue conducted”
― John Temple, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

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Time to vote on our Nov/Dec Nonfiction selection. Thank you to the girls who nominated and good luck to all.

The poll will stay open until Oct 20th.

Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner's Office

by John Temple

9 votes, 29.0%

Dead Man Walking

by Helen Prejean

6 votes, 19.4%

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

by Jane Goodall

5 votes, 16.1%

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

by Robert Macfarlane

4 votes, 12.9%

Born With Teeth

by Kate Mulgrew

3 votes, 9.7%

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

by Sierra Crane Murdoch

2 votes, 6.5%

Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

2 votes, 6.5%

31 total votes

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