THE OPIOID CRISIS: HOW PURDUE PHARMA BOUGHT 500,000 DEATHS

Episode 156 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on the opioid crisis — how Purdue Pharma told American doctors OxyContin wasn't addictive, suppressed the evidence that it was, and produced the worst drug epidemic in American history while the Sackler family extracted $11 billion from the company before it went bankrupt under the weight of more than 2,600 lawsuits.More than 500,000 dead. No member of the Sackler family has ever been convicted of a crime.#HistoryMystery #OpioidCrisis #PurduePharma #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast