Ranging back to the late 1800's, pharmaceutical giants have been conspiring to distribute addictive drugs to the unknowing public. But if there's a poster boy villain for the entire opioid crisis, it's certainly Purdue Pharma, responsible for lying to regulators, doctors, patients and the general public — resulting in ongoing mass casualties since the 1990's. Travis leads us through a dizzying process of flimsy patent laws, PR spin and even the monitoring and targeting of high-prescribing doctors in states where record-keeping wasn't required.

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