NYAIVU has been both humbling and rewarding - having guests discuss their deepest and darkest days so candidly while simultaneously choosing this platform to share their hard won victories and triumphs.

In Ep. 030 we welcome Philip Eil, a freelance journalist based in Rhode Island, who has been at work for over a decade chronicling a story closely related to this project. Below, from Philip:

“I’m writing a book about Paul Volkman, who was a pain-clinic doctor in Portsmouth from 2003 to 2005 (and for a few additional months in Chillicothe) before he was shut down by the DEA. Volkman went on trial for prescription drug-dealing in Cincinnati and was eventually sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison, which I believe is the longest sentence given to ANY U.S. doctor convicted of drug-dealing during the opiate epidemic. One Chicago TV-news station dubbed him the "Pill Mill Killer."

Volkman went to college and medical school with my dad, and I’ve been working on this story since 2009. I wrote a magazine article about the case in 2017 (https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/pill-mill-portsmouth/), but there's much, much more to the story.

My book is currently tentatively scheduled for publication in Spring of 2024.”

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