I watched the really excellent eight-part tv show “Dopesick” on Hulu a couple weeks ago. It is all about Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers, and how they used these methods to hook people on their OxyContin. The show is absolutely infuriating and it, too, is relevant to what is going on today with the mRNA drugs, the incestuous relationship of pharma companies and the FDA, the crookedness and corruption at the FDA, the revolving door from the FDA to the pharma companies, branding, sales incentives, and outright lying in advertising.
I can’t recommend “Dopesick” highly enough. It is brilliantly done with multiple concurrent threads: injured people getting hooked on opioids, the FDA approvals, a dogged investigator at the DEA, very determined US attorneys investigating, a country doctor, the ultra-wealthy Sackler family, and the Perdue Pharma sales department. The only thing I didn’t like was how much it jumped forward and backward in time. It would have been better with a straight chronological presentation.
If you do not subscribe to Hulu, get a free one week trial and watch it, then cancel the trial.
And the terrible thing is they went after them, but more Americans died of Opiods this year than ever before. I think tge demand is being met by China.