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Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the US opioid epidemic, going into the background of opioids then focusing in on the creation and push of Oxycontin by the firm Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler Family.
Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod , on twitter at @itgoeswrongpod or email with your feedback and ideas to [email protected].
If you need support for the themes discussed in this episode, please refer to:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-getting-help/
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/addiction-and-dependency/addiction-and-dependency-resources/
Sources:
The Crime of the Century - NOWTV
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
https://www.livescience.com/60694-why-do-we-get-addicted.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid
https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Sackler
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00921-9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140023/
https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight
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Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the US opioid epidemic, going into the background of opioids then focusing in on the creation and push of Oxycontin by the firm Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler Family.
Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod , on twitter at @itgoeswrongpod or email with your feedback and ideas to [email protected].
If you need support for the themes discussed in this episode, please refer to:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-getting-help/
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/addiction-and-dependency/addiction-and-dependency-resources/
Sources:
The Crime of the Century - NOWTV
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
https://www.livescience.com/60694-why-do-we-get-addicted.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid
https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Sackler
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00921-9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140023/
https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight

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