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‘The Crime of the Century’: Opioid Crisis Doc’s 10 Most Shocking Revelations The new HBO docuseries lifts the curtain on how pharmaceutical companies profit from pain Alex Noble | May 11, 2021 @ 10:00 PM HBO In his new documentary, filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Going Clear”) alleges that the U.S. opioid crisis is not just a crisis but a crime committed by pharmaceutical companies, distributors, pharmacists and doctors all looking for a paycheck. Now that the acclaimed two-part series has landed at HBO, let’s break down its most rewindable moments. 1. The Stats “Crime of the Century” goes to great lengths to illustrate the human cost of the opioid epidemic but that doesn’t make the data it provides any less staggering. According to the doc, overdose deaths in the U.S. have tripled since 1990, 500,000 of which occurred in the last 20 years. Despite claims from pharmaceutical companies that opioid addictions are “excruciatingly rare,” it’s ....
The seal was âa phrase that gives rise to the opioid epidemic,â says Patrick Radden Keefe, a New Yorker journalist, author of the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, in the HBO documentary The Crime of the Century, film-maker Alex Gibneyâs expansive four-hour dive into morally bankrupt businesses which fueled the crisis. It was also a lie, one Purdue used as a catch-all shield to aggressively market OxyContin to doctors across the country as a safe prescription for chronic pain sufferers. Depositions from subsequent lawsuits revealed that Purdue Pharma never held clinical trials to demonstrate that OxyContin was less addictive or likely to be abused than any other opioid. A 2006 memo prepared by prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia, not revealed until August 2019, found that the FDA official in charge of the approval, Dr Curtis Wright, had a suspiciously âinformal in natureâ relationship with the company; Wright stepp ....