Dr. Death gives pregnant mom thousands of pain pills as people drop dead

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Drug companies are facing thousands of lawsuits over their alleged roles in the nation's opioid crisis. According to government data, opioid overdoses have claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people since 1999. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss:Dr. William Morrone: Medical Examiner in Bay County Michigan, Chief Medical Officer for Recovery Pathways; created NEW portable treatment center Dr. Judith Joseph: Psychiatrist, Principal Investigator at Manhattan Behavioral Medicine Mark Tate: Represents Chatham County, South Carolina; suing opioid manufacturers Jeff Cortese: Former Special Agent FBI, former acting Chief of the FBI's Public Corruption Unit,Barry Meier: Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for The New York Times, author of "Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the origin of America's Opioid Epidemic"

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0:00.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:01.7	I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:04.8	The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment
0:08.6	that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.
0:12.0	Because when families are rocked by death,
0:14.9	the only thing they really want are answers.
0:18.1	They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.
0:26.7	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.4	Addiction to opioids.
0:39.0	It is an epidemic claiming more and more lives across our country.
0:44.0	Can you imagine babies, infants being born addicted to fentanyl, addicted to heroin,
0:53.1	addicted to painkillers?
0:55.4	Straight out of the womb, their lives are already broken because of this epidemic
1:02.6	and they are just one tiny, tiny example of what is happening now.
1:08.9	But how do we stop it?
1:17.1	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:21.7	Anita told us the children were born addicted to drugs.
1:25.0	I've lived in embankylistons, I've born.
1:26.9	I like backly, it's a pretty town.
1:29.3	Yeah, it has a lot of worse than New York, in other states.
1:34.0	How do you know that?
1:35.3	News.
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