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

Behind the Bastards

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OxyContin Deaths in 2000

When I was younger, people were taking OxyContin and it was not that bad. It's like, well, at least it's not heroin, but then obviously the next step is heroin. You wind up in that fentanyl shit and then you die. The New York Times put together an article on OxyContin deaths. Concerned Purdue employees asked Richard Sackler, then the CEO, about this. He wrote that the Times coverage was not, quote, balanced or blamed the deaths on drug addicts.

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