Alex Gibney Talks Opioids & His Doc “The Crime of the Century”

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Gibney traces the opioid epidemic & the criminal culpability of bad actors like Purdue Pharma, federal regulators, & doctors. It’s ugly.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Elf Rankin Podcast, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:08.5	Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change, and this time, this time
0:20.2	I mean it.
0:21.5	Alex Gibney, Academy Award-winning documentarian, also Emmy-winning, and many, many other awards
0:28.5	in his long, distinguished career.
0:31.0	His latest on HBO is The Crime of the Century.
0:35.8	And of course, we're talking about Biden stealing the election.
0:39.8	I thought we'd just finally get another point of view on that.
0:43.9	No, no, it isn't.
0:45.6	It's about, unfortunately, about opioids.
0:48.4	Over 500,000 Americans dead.
0:51.3	A very sorted tale about the pharmaceutical industry, particularly Purdue Pharma, founded
0:57.4	by the Sackler family, who do not come off well, to say the least.
1:03.3	But it's a story with a lot of bad actors, including Rudy Giuliani, who represented the pharmaceutical
1:10.6	industry during a very crucial period that led to a settlement, a settlement that buried
1:16.3	a lot of the worst practices that created this crime that left so many Americans dead.
1:23.6	Some regulators look bad.
1:25.3	The doctor is not so good at many of them.
1:28.0	A few politicians, Marsha Blackburn, now Senator from Tennessee, very bad.
1:34.0	It is fascinating.
1:36.0	A lot going on up on the Hill this week, Democrats in Congress, overwhelmingly are for allowing
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