Opioid Crisis in the US: Business and Addiction (Part 1)

Name: Opioid Crisis in the US: Business and Addiction (Part 1)
Uploaded: 2026
Duration: 52 min

202652 min4K★ 8.2Health & Mind

Editor's Take

Tracing the American opioid epidemic to its legal beginnings some thirty years ago, this DW documentary examines the part played by the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma in seeding mass addiction. It sets the human toll against the specific business decisions that produced it, building its case with reportorial rigor. As the first half of a two-part account, it establishes how a public-health catastrophe was manufactured in plain sight.

Opioid Crisis in the US, Part 1 traces how America's devastating drug epidemic began, quite legally, thirty years ago. The DW documentary examines the role of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma in fuelling a wave of cheap opioids and mass addiction. It sets the human toll against the business decisions that created it. Rigorous and damning, it is essential viewing on one of the defining public health disasters of our age. Free to stream in 4K on Dr Documentary.

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