Ladies, ladies, ladies and guys this December from the 17th to the 20th

America Fest is coming to Phoenix, Arizona. It is turning point USA's largest event of the year

It's also the biggest conservative event in the movement so far. Candice Owens, Tim Poole, Tucker Carlson,

Allie Beth Stucky, Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon to name a few will be there. The list of speakers is stacked plus that doesn't even include the special musical guests who have not been announced yet

go to AMFest.com and use code poplitex to get 25% off your tickets. Then go tell your best friend, your mom, your grandpa, your leftist classmate, tell everyone this is a camp miss event and you're going to have serious

FOMO if you don't get your tickets today like right now.

In the late 90s, Purdue pharma looked at states like Maine, West Virginia, and Tennessee and saw them for exactly what they were.

West Virginia made sense as a target demographic for a drug created to reduce pain. The mountain state was filled with blue collar workers, many doing back breaking physical labor like mining.

The two pharmaceutical sales reps were told to target small town doctors and convince them to prescribe the drug to their patients.

They assured them that oxycotton addiction was almost nonexistent, a lie that they paid for big time.

Purdue reps told doctors all of your hardworking patients with debilitating pain from the minds, one dose of oxycotton will relieve pain for 12 hours.

They'll have pain relief all day and all night, except that wasn't true either. When doctors started to hear complaints from patients dealing with chronic pain that the relief on oxycotton lasted only a few hours instead of 12, Purdue reps told doctors,

oh, just increased the dose even higher. In fact, they said there was no limit to how high a dose you could prescribe. Some patients reported being written scripts for 400 milligrams a day.

What happened next changed American life and culture forever. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the last two decades due to prescribed opioids.

According to the CDC, nearly 20% of all opioid deaths involved heroin in 2020, a drug that many oxycotton addicts graduated to.

Now, if you watch my Daily Show politics where I cover pop culture, then you'll remember that last year I gave homework to cute service.

I said, you have got to watch this Emmy winning limited series based on the nonfiction book Dope Sick by Beth Macy on Hulu.

It is based and inspired by real Americans who became victims of the opioid epidemic in one way or another.

One of the characters, Dr. Samuel Finnex, played by Michael Keaton, who won an Emmy for this role is almost entirely based on the life story of a former opioid abuser and doctor in Johnson City, Tennessee.

At one point, this doctor was swallowing and snorting as many as 100 pills a day while prescribing patients the same addictive medication, but eventually he overcame his addiction and went on to become a nationally renowned pain pill and addiction expert.

Here in person, to share his own story of prescription pain pill addiction, the opioid epidemic and how Purdue pharma is responsible for one of the most prolific and horrific true crime cases of all time.

Is Dr. Steven Lloyd, the real life doctor Finnex from Hulu's Dope Sick on the spillover.

...