The Opioid Crisis

S2 E6: Since its release in 1996, OxyContin has helped fuel an epidemic of opioid addictions, claiming more American lives than the Vietnam War. How did one painkiller fuel America's worst-ever drug crisis? Through interviews with pharmaceutical experts, investigative journalists, and former Purdue Pharma employees, we reveal ten key steps behind the catastrophe, including greed-driven deceptions, multiple FDA failures, deadly over-prescribing, and a supply cutoff that caused overdose-related deaths across the U.S. to skyrocket.