Soon to be a major Netflix series Every catastrophe has a
beginning. For the opioid crisis in America, the seed was a drug
called OxyContin. First hailed as a miracle drug for severe pain in
the early 1990s, OxyContin went on to ignite a plague of addiction
and death across America, fuelled by the aggressive marketing of
its maker, Purdue Pharma and the billionaire Sackler brothers who
owned the company. Investigative journalist Barry Meier was the
first to write about the elusive Sackler family, their role in this
catastrophic epidemic and the army of local doctors, law
enforcement and worried parents that tried to bring them down. We
meet the teenager proud of being the youngest Oxy user she knows at
just 16, the local doctor who witnesses his community in the grip
of a ferocious epidemic, the three billionaire Sackler brothers,
and the government official who made it her mission to hold the
company to account. Part thriller, part medical detective story,
this is the origin story of the opioid crisis in America and a
rollicking insight into the ways of big pharma and the greed of
business that fuelled a national tragedy.
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