Since 2000, more than 500,000 Americans have died of opioid overdoses. Millions addicted, and every 25 minutes a baby is born with opioid withdrawal. It is estimated that the cost of opioid abuse is over 1 trillion. We call this an opioid crisis but a crisis is something that happens naturally, what if we discovered that the opioid crisis was caused by businesses seeking to profit from pain? With politician's fingers pointed at the Mexican drug cartels, there are four fingers pointed back at themselves. How did this highly addictive and destructive drug come to be, hook individuals seeking relief from pain, and how has it maintained its stronghold on the soft white underbelly of America? The answers may surprise you.