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Scott Higham

Biography

Scott Higham

Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post. He served as a lead reporter on the Post’s The Opioid Files series, which was a Pulitzer Finalist for Public Service. His investigation into the opioid industry with "60 Minutes" received the Peabody Award, an Emmy, and the duPont-Columbia and Edward R. Murrow awards. Higham is the co-author of FINDING CHANDRA: A True Washington Murder Mystery.

Scott Higham

Books by Scott Higham

American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz - Nonfiction, True Crime

AMERICAN CARTEL is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows a small band of DEA agents led by Joseph Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers, including West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr., who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the worst man-made drug epidemic in American history. It is the story of underdogs prevailing over corporate greed and political cowardice, persevering in the face of predicted failure, and how they found some semblance of justice for the families of the dead during the most complex civil litigation ever seen.