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

Behind the Bastards

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The Sacklers and Oxycontin

In 1995, Purdue Pharmaceutical convened a group of physicians to decide if they'd be willing to prescribe Oxycontin for non-cancer pain. Most doctors were unwilling to do this because they worried about getting their patients addicted and perhaps igniting an opioid epidemic. We're going to find out what happens next with Richard Sackler, the other Sacklers and Oxycontin.

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