Why One 'Miracle' Pill Created America's Worst Drug Crisis
Explore the strange history of OxyContin, a pill so perfectly marketed it convinced an entire nation that opioids weren't addictive while the family selling it collected twelve billion dollars and a wing in the Louvre. This video traces how a five-sentence letter became the deadliest lie in pharmaceutical history, how Purdue's sales army flooded Appalachia with "miracle" pills, and how a guilty plea that should have ended everything became a license to keep killing. We'll follow the Sacklers from Kalamazoo laboratories to offshore bank accounts, expose the revolving door between FDA desks and…
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