America’s opioid overprescription problem has never been more clear Posted By Lee DeVito, Detroit Metro Times on Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:21 PM Shutterstock More than 500,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since 2000. The tragedy of the opioid crisis has been in the news a lot lately. Earlier this week, HBO debuted its two-part
The Crime of the Century, directed by award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley and
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief). Last month, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, who appears in
The Crime of the Century, released
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, a deep dive into the wealthy family that pushed pills on Americans, to a disastrous effect.
Shutterstock The tragedy of the opioid crisis has been in the news a lot lately. Earlier this week, HBO debuted its two-part
The Crime of the Century, directed by award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley and
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief). Last month, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, who appears in
The Crime of the Century, released
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, a deep dive into the wealthy family that pushed pills on Americans, to a disastrous effect. By now, the extent of the crisis is clear as day: More than 500,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since 2000, including more than 50,000 in 2019. (For context, more than 580,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.) And in recent years, the medical industry has faced a reckoning that its own practices have caused so much s