BONUS: Danny Strong on Hulu's Dopesick
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Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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This episode was made in collaboration with Hulu. Hosts Tara Ariano and LaToya Ferguson discuss the 10-episode limited series and its complex storytelling, and then creator Danny Strong weighs in on how the project came together and its ongoing impact.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's get right to the issue at hand. |
| 0:02.0 | OxyContin is becoming the largest cause of overdose in the country. |
| 0:06.0 | Make your doctors feel special. |
| 0:09.0 | Whatever it takes to win their trust, |
| 0:11.0 | these are your new magic words. |
| 0:14.0 | Less than one person. |
| 0:16.0 | Less than one person. |
| 0:17.0 | Less than one percent of people get addicted to OxyContin. |
| 0:19.0 | That's not possible. |
| 0:21.0 | Purdue Pharma has been marketing the drug. |
| 0:23.0 | It's non-addictive. |
| 0:24.0 | When it clearly is. |
| 0:25.0 | You're going to need more evidence |
| 0:26.0 | and you can find this entire building. |
| 0:28.0 | To find me something big. |
| 0:30.0 | I've never worked for a pharma company where the FDA did almost everything they wanted. |
| 0:35.0 | Crime is on the rise across the country. |
| 0:38.0 | People's lives are at stake. |
| 0:40.0 | And a pharma company is lying about their medicine. |
| 0:43.0 | No, there's a thing that's happening to me. |
| 0:46.0 | These are really hard-working people. |
| 0:49.0 | I can't believe how many of them are good enough. |
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