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Part One: The Sackler Family: America's Deadliest Drug Dealers

Behind the Bastards

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OxyContin and the War on Drugs

A major part of OxyContin's success was produced by the strategy of declaring a war on pain. Over the course of the late 1990s, they poured millions and millions of dollars into backing doctors who supported opioid treatment for chronic pain. "I think you're going to have a scuba club that all dies doing it," he says.

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