Understanding Opioids in "The Crime of the Century"

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Thom Powers
Documentary of the Week | May 14, 2021

The new documentary The Crime of the Century studies how Purdue Pharma and other companies fostered an opioid epidemic. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney interviews author Patrick Radden Keefe ("Empire of Pain") and others to expose the secrets that Big Pharma tried to conceal.

 

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