469 // The Pill Mill Killer w/ Philip Eil

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Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna have a eye-opening conversation with author and journalist, Philip Eil. Prescription for Pain is Eil's debut, an investigation lasting over a decade, with some personal ties. Eil introduces us to Paul Volkman, his father’s old classmate, who once seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona for his involvement and subsequent deaths connected to an Ohio-based pill mill. This episode was originally published on Crawlspace on October 20th, 2024. Find out more about Philip Eil on his website: https://www.philipeil.com/. Pick up your copy of Prescription for Pain: https://bookshop.org/p/books/trail-of-destruction-how-a-once-promising-doctor-became-the-pill-mill-killer-philip-eil/20251227?ean=9781586423827. Follow Philip: X: https://twitter.com/phileil. FB: https://www.facebook.com/phileilwriter. Follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. YT: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace. Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt. The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound. Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to missing. I am Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today? Well, I'm doing
0:38.2	fantastic today, Tim. I am really fascinated by the conversation that we have coming up. It is with
0:44.5	an author and journalist who dug into this one particular individual who was instrumental in
0:50.9	causing the deaths of several people during the height of the opioid crisis in the early 2000s.
0:57.1	But Tim summoning the energy here.
0:59.4	How are you today?
1:00.5	I'm doing great.
1:01.2	Thanks a lot for asking.
1:02.4	And yes, I'm very excited to introduce this conversation that we had with author Philip Isle.
1:07.6	And his new book is called Prescription for Pain, How a Once Promising Doctor
1:13.3	Became the Pill Mill Killer. That's a lot of ills right there. But this guy, Paul Volkman,
1:19.8	was mentally ill to have done what he did. And speaking of ill, this is going to be a quick intro
1:25.4	because I don't have much of my voice left anymore
1:28.3	after a cold has gone through my body. So thank you for that segue, Tim. And you brought up Paul
1:34.4	Vokman. He is not just this, quote, evil character distributing these drugs to people and laughing
1:41.8	in the corner of his dungeon in this monstrous way, he's such a
1:46.3	complex individual. And once Phil starts getting into his personality, his narcissism, his failures,
1:53.7	and how all of those things kind of contributed to this one part of him that had always been there.
1:58.6	And Phil knows this because he's got a personal
2:00.8	connection. His father actually went to medical school with him with Paul Vokman and has accounts
2:06.1	from his father saying what this man was like. But ultimately, everyone was surprised when they
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