Pain Killer - An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America's Opioid Epidemic

Barry Meier

Every catastrophe has a beginning. For the opioid crisis in America, the seed was a drug called OxyContin.First hailed as a miracle drug for severe pain in the early 1990s, OxyContin went on to ignite a plague of addiction and death across America, fuelled by the aggressive marketing of its maker, Purdu...