Opioid Crisis in the US: Business and Addiction (Part 2)

Editor's Take

Picking up its account of the American opioid epidemic, this DW film turns to the tactics used to keep the drugs selling, from bribery and fraud to reckless increases in dosage. It moves among the pain clinics and profiteers who made an industry of addiction, and the patients left to bear the cost. The investigation is unsparing, tracing the human toll back to specific business decisions.

Opioid Crisis in the US, Part 2 exposes the ruthless tactics used to sell opioids at any cost, from bribery and fraud to reckless dose increases. The DW film follows the pain clinics and profiteers who turned addiction into an industry, and the patients who paid with their lives. It reveals the depth of corruption behind the epidemic. Powerful and disturbing, it completes a searing account of a crisis that reshaped America. Free to stream in 4K on Dr Documentary.

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