“In some cases, these communities also happened to have long-standing problems with prescription drug abuse. In some parts of Appalachia, people would pair an OxyContin with a Valium – one of Richard Sackler’s pills and one of his uncle Arthur’s. They called this “the Cadillac high.”

“In some cases, these communities also happened to have long-standing problems with prescription drug abuse. In some parts of Appalachia, people would pair an OxyContin with a Valium – one of Richard Sackler’s pills and one of his uncle Arthur’s. They called this “the Cadillac high.”

— Patrick Radden Keefe