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Filmmaker says opioid crisis is ‘The Crime of the Century’
Documentary maker Alex Gibney considers the opioid crisis no accident By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press
Published: May 10, 2021, 6:05am
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NEW YORK Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO’s two-part documentary “The Crime of the Century” opens with a body bag.
It contained a man from San Diego his remains carried away in the predawn hours after overdosing on fentanyl one of nearly a half-million Americans to die from opioid abuse since 2001.
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Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO’s two-part documentary “The Crime of the Century” opens with a body bag.
It contained a man from San Diego his remains carried away in the predawn hours after overdosing on fentanyl one of nearly a half million Americans to die from opioid abuse since 2001.
Filmmaker Alex Gibney quickly widens the lens, however, for an explanation of how the drugs that caused the crisis came to be, how companies aggressively promoted and distributed them and how the government failed to act swiftly and effectively to save lives.
The story is exhaustive and often sickening, its scope recalling the examinations Gibney and his team have given in the past to Enron, to Scientology and, most recently, to the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. “The Crime of the Century” will be shown Monday and Tuesday.
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