A small American town wrestles with a deadly epidemic of prescription drug abuse in OXYANA, a documentary film being shown at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in Titchener 101. The film is part of the Communications Department’s Academic Film and Book Series.
OXYANA (2015, 118 minutes) documents the dark notoriety achieved by Oceana, West Virginia – a scenic coal mountain mining town that is now being ravaged by an epidemic of black market prescription Oxycontin. At one point the drugs were responsible for a death rate of one person every day. The story is told by the addicts, the drug dealers and the people who have lost loved ones to the epidemic.
