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Alex Gibney, welcome to the Daily Social Distance Show.

Thanks, Trevor.

The last time you were on our show was in 2018 and you were on with, it was your documentary

Dirty Money.

Now you are back with another documentary about a topic that I can't even explain to you

how infuriating it makes me as a person because A of what was done to people, B of what

the ramifications have been and see why it feels like almost nothing is going to happen

in the way of justice.

And that is all about the opioid epidemic.

Tell me a little bit about your documentary.

It's a two parts on HBO.

It's a two part doc, four hours called The Crime of the Century.

And the reason I called it The Crime of the Century and the reason I was interested in doing

it was it seemed like the opioid crisis was being presented to us almost like a natural

disaster, like a hurricane or a flood as if it just happened.

But upon an examination it seems clear that it was manufactured, manufactured by a number

of key corporations.

And so there's a crime there and therefore there are people to be held to account.

And therefore there are things that were done wrong that hopefully set right.

And what's really interesting in this story, I didn't know some of these parts was how

these drug companies, Purdue in particular said, you know what, we're going to make sure

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