Feature Essay: Bootleggers, Baptists, and Deaths of Despair
How the opioid crisis is driven by illicit trade and moral outrage
A new HBO documentary entitled “Crime of the Century” investigates the opioid epidemic by examining the role of Big Pharma and specifically Purdue Pharma, the firm that led early research into the development of prescription opioids. By driving research into the prescriptive benefits of opioids and marketing them to doctors as a safe pain treatment, the…
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