pill head

The new media interest in painkiller addiction brought a lot of attention to Pill Head.

Lyon has said that these events give Pill Head a sense of immediacy not found in many drug abuse books.

Pill Head is part drug addled memoir and part thoughtful, investigative journalism.

Michael Jackson overdosed twelve days before the release of Pill Head.

Jane folded four days after Lyon sold the book proposal for Pill Head.

Pill Head is part memoir, part investigative journalism and chronicles prescription painkiller abuse in America.

Lyon's refers to his boss, Leslie Russo, as a mentor and thanks her in his memoir, Pill Head.

He is the author of Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict, published by Hyperion on July 7, 2009.

In the epilogue of Pill Head, Lyon wrote that the book was not written for anyone except him, and that he was just trying to make sense of what had happened to him.

Two days after Lyon's agent distributed the initial proposal for Pill Head to six publishing houses, the cover of the New York Times Magazine featured a massive investigative report on painkiller addiction.

In Pill Head, he describes the job as exhausting but cool-he got to go inside hundreds of different types of homes in NYC, everything from Chinatown tenements to massive lofts in SOHO.