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There is a great deal of convincing evidence that proves how billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies are the true drug dealers behind America's opioid crisis, skirting full accountability for years by paying penalties in paltry millions so they can keep making billions. (Meanwhile, 500,000 Americans have died from opioid-related overdoses since 2000.) Much of that evidence is crammed in the two-part docuseries “The Crime of the Century,” some of which has never been seen by the public before with regards to depositions and court documents. Such revelations, gathered by prolific docum...

The seal was “a phrase that gives rise to the opioid epidemic,” says Patrick Radden Keefe, a New Yorker journalist, author of the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, in the HBO documentary The Crime of the Century, film-maker Alex Gibney’s expansive four-hour dive into morally bankrupt businesses which fueled the crisis. It was also a lie, one Purdue used as a catch-all shield to aggressively market OxyContin to doctors across the country as a safe prescription for chronic pain sufferers. Depositions from subsequent lawsuits revealed that Purdue Phar...