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Posted on Friday, April 9th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui How did opioids become the center of one of the worst public health crises in U.S. history? That’s what the new HBO documentary  The Crime of the Century aims to find out. Directed by  Alex Gibney — who won three Emmys in 2015 for his thorough Scientology doc  Going Clear and an Oscar for his 2008 look at the U.S. torture and interrogation techniques in Afghanistan, Taxi to the Dark Side —  The Crime of the Century is a new two-part documentary that examines how Big Pharma, political operatives, and government regulations led to...

Rolling Stone ‘The Crime of the Century’: Alex Gibney Examines the Opioid Crisis in New Doc Teaser Two-part film will arrive on HBO Max in May By The Crime of the Century, which will air in two parts on May 10th and 11th. The film is rooted partly in a confidential Justice Department memo issued in 2006 that laid out a criminal case against Purdue Pharma, claiming the company knew how addictive OxyContin was but was misleading the public and Congress about its dangers. A case was never brought against Purdue, and the opioid epidemic only grew in the ensuing years as pharmaceutic...