Pharmaceutical corruption, awarded authors; plus, new music!

click to enlarge DRUG PUSHERS

It’s easy to look at the state of American cities and wonder how anyone could ever get hooked on something as deadly as fentanyl. But a look at very recent history would tell you that the legal opioid epidemic, pushed by pharmaceutical giants, got many Americans hooked on incredibly addictive painkillers. Fentanyl is often pressed into pill form to mimic those legal prescription opioids. The history of oxy’s rise is the subject of Netflix’s new limited series PAINKILLER, which offers a damning (and partly fictionalized) retelling of how money and corruption helped fuel

→ Continue reading at Inlander

Related articles

Comments

Share article

Latest articles