Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for Open, Honest, and provocative conversations.

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. It is the end of True Crime,

Christmas Week here on the show, and we have a very different kind of crime story to bring

to you today. Have you heard about the Sackler family? By the end of the show, you will.

Know their story well, and the story of the opioid crisis in America. It's stunning. It

is devastating, and it is indeed criminal. I was so moved by the recent Hulu series,

Dope Sack. If you haven't seen this, you must. You must. That I wanted to do a show on

it. And today, I'm very, very happy to be joined in just a bit by the author of the book

that inspired the series, as well as separately, the creator of the series, Dope Sack. Danny

Strong is the director executive producer of Dope Sack, and he joins me now. Danny,

thank you so much for being here. You're the creator. You're the show runner. And let

me just kick it off with, you know, we're going to get into it, but it's basically about

how the opioid crisis in America unfolded. What attracted you to that subject matter?

Well, first off, thanks so much for having me on your show. And, you know, I'm so thrilled

you watched the show, and we're so taken by it. So it's all very appreciated. It all

began when a producer named John Goldwyn, head who's a really terrific producer, he came

to me and said, do you want to write and direct a movie on the opioid crisis? And I had

read this New Yorker article by Patrick Raid and Keith that came out in 2017. It basically

blew the story up as far as the Sack or families involvement with Purdue Pharma, with

OxyContin in a very damning way. I think that that article was a major turning point in

sort of the history of the opioid crisis and who was ultimately responsible for sparking

it and setting the flames and then keeping that fire going for at least a decade if

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