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

Behind the Bastards

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OxyContin - The Death of a Child

In 2001, there were about eight drug overdose deaths for every hundred thousand Americans. By 2010, that number had almost doubled to 15 deaths per hundred thousand. And most of them were dying from opiate painkillers, including OxyContin. Richard Sackler came up with a solution to this problem: hammer on the abusers in every way possible.

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