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How The Greatest Pharma Scandal in HISTORY Ruined MILLIONS of Lives

History of Everything

History of Everything

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.7758 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Drugs. They ruin lives but when you have a medicine that is supposed to help you that is a good drug. But sometimes the companies that make good drugs can make a very bad one an that is how you end up with millions of addicts and deaths. This is the story of Perdue Pharma and OxyContin Watch the ⁠⁠podcast⁠⁠ Fight me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠war of the barons⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Travel to Croatia with me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Travel to Greece with me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Travel to Thailand with me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sister podcast the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mystery of Everything⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠COFFEE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Submit your relatives on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:05.4

Hello everyone. My name is Wesley Levisay from the History of the Second World War

0:09.6

podcast. Join me on a journey to the most destructive conflict in human history, a journey that

0:15.3

will take us not just through the famous campaigns and cataclysmic battles, but also to the lesser

0:20.4

well-known corners of the

0:21.8

war that touched millions all over the world, as we try and answer not just the questions of

0:26.6

what and where, but how and why. You can find History of the Second World War on all major

0:32.3

podcast platforms or at History of the Second World War.com. Oh, hello, my friends.

0:37.6

Stuck are you here? And I'm Gabi. And welcome back to the podcast, my hoes. Oh, dear God. Yeah, I do formally want to apologize. I know from the previous episode, for those of you who were watching on YouTube, that the episode was going out late. And I did, yeah, but we've hired an assistant. We restructured things in order to make sure that that doesn't really happen.

0:55.0

So we have dedicated research,

0:57.0

dedicated editing,

0:58.2

dedicated, Yeah, but we've hired an assistant. We've restructured things in order to make sure that that doesn't really happen.

0:54.9

So we have dedicated research, dedicated editing, dedicated admin, because we had a period last year, if you guys have been like around for the last year where all of last January or last December, we recorded episodes.

1:10.5

I mean like exhausted late at night recorded episodes and he never hit post.

1:15.9

Yes.

1:17.2

That has happened.

1:18.8

And so someone messaged and was like, hey, are you guys on a break?

1:22.0

I were like, no, we've recorded an episode every single week.

1:25.4

He didn't post them.

1:26.3

So anyway, we have someone who will post them now

1:28.2

because he is a little bit tired. And I do apologize. Yeah, yesterday we literally just did a 10-hour

1:34.9

drive back from Pennsylvania where we were filming History Unhinged, which you haven't seen that show.

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