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Richard Stallard is a police lieutenant in a relatively poor region of Virginia known as Lee County. He is on the front lines of the opioid epidemic, seeing firsthand what OxyContin is doing to local communities: increasing crime as desperate dealers look for ways to get money and pills to avoid feeling dopesick. Later, Purdue Pharma will offer “grants” to try to encourage community leaders like Stallard to keep quiet.
Richard Stallard Quotes in Dopesick
The Dopesick quotes below are all either spoken by Richard Stallard or refer to Richard Stallard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The doctors were witnessing the same thing that Lieutenant Stallard had seen a year earlier, in 1997, on the streets. “We had always had people using Lortabs and Percocets, but they were five- or ten-milligram pills you could take every day and still function. They didn’t have to have more,” Stallard said.
“The difference with OxyContin was it turned them into nonfunctioning people”
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Richard Stallard Quotes in Dopesick
The Dopesick quotes below are all either spoken by Richard Stallard or refer to Richard Stallard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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The doctors were witnessing the same thing that Lieutenant Stallard had seen a year earlier, in 1997, on the streets. “We had always had people using Lortabs and Percocets, but they were five- or ten-milligram pills you could take every day and still function. They didn’t have to have more,” Stallard said.
“The difference with OxyContin was it turned them into nonfunctioning people”
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