Perspective. We will will talk about two things in the next little while. Where we go from here but also want to start with how this collaboration came to be. The posts in 60 minutes have worked together on Something Like this. In nearly a decade. So lets start with where the reporting story starts. How did you get the idea. We sit in result 18 months later. When did this start . The beginning of 2016 that a project launched on the National Desk post and the idea was to try to 20 people why so many people were dying w of opiate overdoses, taken in middle america, particularly middle class whites, and i had an editor who saidte to me i want u to explain how all these hundreds of millions of opioid pills get on the street. It doesnt make t sense to me wy we cant just keep them in the supply chain. And so i started reading up on it at the start calling around and, indeed, there been a lot of coverage of the manufacturers and the doctors and pharmacies but nothing on these wholesale distri
Person. Lenny bernstein at the rosen,ton post, and ira from 60 minutes. We will talk about a few things. Where we go from here, but also how this collaboration came to and 60se the post minutes have not worked on this for nearly a decade. We see the end result 18 months later. Where did this piece result . In the beginning of 2016 we had a project launched on the National Desk at the post, and the idea was to explain why so many people were dying of opiate overdoses, particularly in middle america, middle class, whites. And i had an editor who said i want you to explain how all these hundreds of millions of opioid pills get on the street. It does not make sense to me why we cannot keep them in the supply chain. I started reading up on it and started calling around. Indeed, there have been coverage of the manufacturers and adopters and the for messieurs pharmacies, nothing on the distributors do realize there was an opportunity to write about their role. Someone said you have to call th
Latest policy will be found unconstitutional. Well get an update from the center for constitutional rights. Then to america severing Opioid Epidemic and how congress undermine efforts to restrict the flow of pain pills that led to tens of thousands of deaths. We will look at the secretive family making billions from the Opioid Crisis. That is the Sackler Family, owners of the comedy that invented oxycontin. We will speak with christopher glazek, the reporter who broke the story. Then to guantanamo where detainees onunger strike have accused officials of a sudden change in practice that could result in them starving to death as doctors stop forcefeeding them and are no longer monitoring their medical condition. We will go to london to speak with Clive Stafford smith of reprieve, which represents eit guantanamo prisosoners. If someone is going to die from starvation, should you go against their will and force feed them or not . When the british did that to the ira, we let them die. Amy a
To hear from you in person. And producer who made this peas happen. So where we go from here but how this collaboration in came to be poor girl slowed the most in a decade how did you even get the idea . And to have dave project once the idea was to explain why so many people were dying of opioid overdose particular the middleclass in america of whites. And we want you to explain how these hundreds of millions of opioid pills could own the street and why we can just keep them in the supply chain. And then started to crawl around with the coverage of the of manufacturers nothing with the wholesale distributors i started to crawl around and find out this is what he has been doing for the past decade. He was very upset what was going on. I got an earful link could not get him off the phone. So the distributors are key. But that crucial part of your reporting give oscilloscopes. So the three big distributors among the top 25 in america. We had not heard from them but then bring him down to
To tens of thousands of deaths. We will look at the secretive family making billions from the Opioid Crisis. That is the Sackler Family, owners of the comedy that invented oxycontin. We will speak with christopher glazek, the reporter who broke the story. Then to guantanamo where detainees on Hunger Strike have accused officials of a sudden change in practice that could result in them starving to death as doctors stop forcefeeding them and are no longer monitoring their medical condition. We will go to london to speak with Clive Stafford smith of reprieve, which represents eight guantanamo prisoners. If someone is going to die from starvation, should you go against their will and force feed them or not . When the british did that to the ira, we let them die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal judge in maryland has blocked parts of President Trumps most recent travel ban, dealing a second bl