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Pain Killer
- An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America’s Opioid Epidemic
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
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 Lindsay Meyers, proud of being the youngest Oxy user she knows at just 16, local doctor Art Van Zee who witnesses his community in the grip of a ferocious epidemic, the three billionaire Sackler brothers, and Laura Nagel, the government official who made it her mission to hold the company to account.
Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story, and business exposé, Pain Killer is the origin story of the opioid crisis, a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the trigger for a national tragedy.
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- Martin Mc Guigan
- 30-06-24
Great listen
Described everything you need to know about the opioid epidemic in America and what steps were missed could of so easily been stopped only for greed
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-02-24
Very good
True I’ve been addicted to pain meds for over fifteen years so rings very true to me & very hard to come off them
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- Dean Rudland
- 10-08-24
A story we should all be told the world over. This is corporate manslaughter in the most unforgivable pursuit of money.
It needs to be told. Greed in its most hideous form. And it hasn’t gone away.
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