Sup you beautiful bastards. Don't be a fantastic weekend.

Welcome to another weekend deep dive. My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we're

to be talking about the opioid epidemic.

Now over the last few months we've covered several disturbing stories on the main

show concerning the role of pharmaceutical companies

in creating this crisis. And while the word crisis, yes, is thrown around a lot in the media, there is really no other way to describe just bad this problem has become. A new CDC report has some staggering statistics about drug overdoses.

72,000 people died last year, just last year, and that is a 10% increase in overdose

deaths over the year before.

New CDC research shows fentanyl is now the most common drug involved in drug overdose deaths

in the United States.

The National Safety Council puts the odds of dying from an opioid overdose in America at one in 96.

That's a higher chance than dying in a car accident.

And while provisional data from the CDC shows that overdose deaths have finally stopped rising and may in fact be leveling off,

we are still looking at more than 67,000 deaths between September 2017 and September 2018.

With the vast majority of those deaths as a result of opioid use. And while pharmaceutical

companies like Purdue, McKesson, and Incis have received the majority of

the attention for flooding communities with opioids like OxyContin and

fentanyl, there is actually another company that has largely fallen below the

radar. And it's a company that was supposed to help solve the opioid epidemic.

And so to go down this rabbit hole, we had Rogue Rockets Cody Snell jump into it.

The origins of the opioid crisis have been well documented by media outlets across the country.

Two million Americans are hooked on prescription painkillers and in 2012

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