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.

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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