Winner Liz O. Baylen, Mary Vignoles, Scott Glover, Lisa Girion, Hailey Branson-Potts, Marc Duvoisin, Matt Lait, Megan Garvey, Stephanie Ferrell, Hailey Branson-Potts, Doug Smith, Sandra Poindexter, Maloy Moore, Armand Emamdjomeh, Lily Mihalik, Lorena Iñiguez Elebee Los Angeles Times
"DYING FOR RELIEF - A TIMES INVESTIGATION"
Finalist Rick Loomis, Ken Weiss, Liz O. Baylen, Albert Lee, Armand Emamdjomeh, Stephanie Ferrell, Thomas Suh Lauder, Ken Schwencke, Laura Dominick, Jeff Amlotte, Mary Cooney, Marc Duvoisin Los Angeles Times
"BEYOND 7 BILLION"
Finalist AJ Chavar, Sohail Al-Jamea, Chris Cillizza, Kat Downs, Karen Yourish, Eddy Palanzo, Jayne Orenstein, The Washington Post
"THE ROAD TO VICTORY: HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA WON REELECTION"
Finalist Kelly Izlar, Stephanie Bullins, Joshua Davis, Dylan Gilroy, Jon Kasbe, Kelly McHugh, Spencer Bakalar, Cyrus Huneycutt, Vanessa Patchettt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"100 GALLONS"
Winner
Liz O. Baylen, Mary Vignoles, Scott Glover, Lisa Girion, Hailey Branson-Potts, Marc Duvoisin, Matt Lait, Megan Garvey, Stephanie Ferrell, Hailey Branson-Potts, Doug Smith, Sandra Poindexter, Maloy Moore, Armand Emamdjomeh, Lily Mihalik, Lorena Iñiguez Elebee Los Angeles Times
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"DYING FOR RELIEF - A TIMES INVESTIGATION"
Prescription drug overdoses now claim more lives than heroin and cocaine combined, fueling a doubling of drug-related deaths in the United States over the last decade. This alarming fact has health and law enforcement officials scrambling to curb the epidemic. Much of their efforts have been focused on how potent painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin are obtained illegally, such as through pharmacy robberies. Authorities have failed to recognize how often people overdose on medications prescribed for them by their doctors. In the series “Dying for Relief,” a team of Los Angeles Times journalists set out to bring awareness to this issue and expose an unseemly side of medicine exposing how rogue physicians and pharmacists profiteer at the expense of patients’ safety, and in many cases patients’ lives, and how law enforcement officials and medical regulators have failed to prevent it.
