Estados Unidos registró en 2020 una cifra récord por sobredosis de drogas: 93 mil 331. Los opioides están detrás de la mayoría de estas defunciones, pero hay uno en particular que ha prendido alertas, el fentanilo. El Gobierno de EU ha pedido a México enfrentar el tráfico de esta sustancia, y aunque los decomisos han ido al alza, las muertes por sobredosis continúan del otro lado de la frontera.
Ciudad de México, 24 de julio (SinEmbargo).– El
fentanilo representa una de las principales amenazas para la salud pública y la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos, situación que ha llevado al Gobierno de este país ha presionar a su contraparte mexicana para
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When accomplished folks who have racked up awards like Oscars, Emmys, and Pulitzers provide their frank appraisal of the roles of Big Pharma, federal regulators, and law enforcement in the opioid abuse and drug overdose epidemic, they don’t mince words. Just consider the title of their new, four-hour, two-part documentary running on HBO: “The Crime of the Century.”
That headline just starts to capture the gist of the broadcast indictment of the lethal mire that we’ve all gotten sunk into after drug makers while officials snored barraged the country with billions of super potent painkiller pills.
THE PLOT:
Witness one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time. The two-part HBO Original documentary from Emmy and Academy Award winner Alex Gibney takes a sobering look at legal drug-pushing Big Pharmaâs role in Americaâs opioid crisis.
LYNNâS TAKE:
Since 2000, 500,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses. Director Alex Gibney, who also wrote and narrated âThe Crime of the Century,â exposes the truth in an urgent, straightforward way: the blame rests largely on the multi-billion pharmaceutical industry, which manufactured the crisis and earns profits from it.
Exhaustively researched, this expansive and hard-hitting documentary traces the origins and evolution of the current epidemic tearing families apart across the U.S.