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Basically the pharmaceutical industry behind the scenes launched a covert operation in essence to influence academia, to influence the fda, the federation of state medical boards, watchdog organizations that are supposed to keep an eye on how doctors practice. and the pharmaceutical industry ended up perpetrating one of the greatest myths in modern medical history which is if a patient is prescribed an opioid for a pain condition they won't get addicted. now we know that's not true. >> so you have big pharma, the distributors who are wholesalers, the targets of the lawsuit. you have doctors do...

It? is it doctors fault? who made a mistake here? >> dr. poti: i'm going to say it's complicated. i'm not going to say there's one entity here that's responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain. we will judge your hospital. we will judge your emergency room based on your pain scores. that's how we were taught. and we were also told these medicines weren't all that addictive. we starte...

And we were also told that these medicines aren't all that addicti addictive. we started handing out pills like crazy. 100 million americans have chronic pain. so, we did a disservice as doctors and as prescribers like we took data that was [ bleep ], and then we went forth with it and said prescribe it to everyone, they won't get addicted. guess what, we didn't know what we were doing. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road.

>> is it the big pharmaceuticals fault? doctors fault? who made a mistake here? >> it's complicated. i'm not going to say there's one entity here that's responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency, you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain, we'll judge your hospital, emergency room based on your pain scores. that's how we were taught. and we were also told that these medicines weren't all that addictive. we started handing ou...

>> is it big pharma's fault? doctors' fault? whose fault is it? >> it's complicated. i'm not going to say there's one entity here that's responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency, you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out opain, we'll judge your hospital, emergency room based on your pain scores. that's how we were taught. and we were also told these medicines aren't that addictive. we started handing out pills like crazy. 100 mill...