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Jamaal Grant as Shawn Flowers, Uzo Aduba as Edie Flowers in "Painkiller." (Keri Anderson/Netflix)

Painkiller's drug dealers who get away

D. Watkins
(L to R) John Rothman as Mortimer Sackler, Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler in Netflix's "Painkiller" (Keri Anderson/Netflix)

"Greedy evil" birthed the opioid crisis

D. Watkins
Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, April 2, 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Victims of opioids stand to get nothing

Ryan Hampton
Michael Keaton in "Dopesick" (Antony Platt/Hulu)

"Dopesick" isn't addictive TV

Melanie McFarland
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Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a democratic presidential candidate, prepares to speak during the U.S Conference of Mayors 88th Winter Meeting at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, January 22, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bloomberg gave Sacklers PR help

Hannah Dreier - Common Dreams
Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

Pushing docs to prescribe opioids

Matthew Rozsa
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Dollars for doctors

Hannah Fresques - ProPublica
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Purdue Pharma may become a public trust

David Herzberg - The Conversation
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OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The opioid crisis in perspective

Mattea Kramer - TomDispatch.com
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Inside Purdue Pharma’s media playbook

David Armstrong - ProPublica
(AP Photo/Douglas Healey/Getty Images/Salon)

The Sackler family, profiteers of death

Shira Tarlo
(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Purdue data doesn't tell the whole story

David Armstrong, Jeff Ernsthausen - ProPublica
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OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Life in a "Dopesick" country

Chauncey DeVega
A sign with some names of the Sackler family is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Dirty money and museums

Rachel Leah
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OxyContin's strength hidden from doctors

David Armstrong - ProPublica
Howard Schultz; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Michael Bloomberg (AP/Richard Drew/Elise Amendola/Getty/Scott Eisen)

A pox on billionaire candidates

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Children walk by drug users passed out along a street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Drug exec to profit off opioid treatment

Matthew Chapman - Alternet
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Opioid maker gets addiction drug patent

Nicole Karlis
FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Overdoses don't happen just to heroin addicts _ patients who legally use strong painkillers called opioids are at risk in the nation’s epidemic, too. A new study says when patients were prescribed an overdose antidote along with those medications, they made fewer painkiller-related visits to the emergency room. The study released on June 27, 2016, went a step further _ to see if the take-home antidote idea also could work for patients with chronic pain who may not realize they could accidentally get into trouble with prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and others. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File) (AP)

Cashing in on OxyContin's dangers

Fred Schulte - KFF Health News
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Trump country is opioid country

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Overdoses don't happen just to heroin addicts _ patients who legally use strong painkillers called opioids are at risk in the nation’s epidemic, too. A new study says when patients were prescribed an overdose antidote along with those medications, they made fewer painkiller-related visits to the emergency room. The study released on June 27, 2016, went a step further _ to see if the take-home antidote idea also could work for patients with chronic pain who may not realize they could accidentally get into trouble with prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and others. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File) (AP)

Oxycontin maker cuts sales staff

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump's new drug war: Same as the old?

Conor Lynch
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

Purdue to stop promoting opioids: report

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Trump: blame dealers for opioid crisis

Nicole Karlis
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