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60 Minutes

Sunday, June 17, 2018

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Drug Enforcement Administration's plan to crack down on the opioid epidemic was thwarted - as the number of drug related deaths continue to rise. In a joint investigation with The Washington Post -- Bill Whitaker learns more. Those stories on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

I'm Candace DeLong and on my new podcast, Killer Psychy Daily, I share a quick 10-minute

0:05.2

rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the cold-butted killers you

0:10.5

read about in the news.

0:12.2

Listen to the Amazon Music Exclusive Podcast Killer Psychy Daily in the Amazon Music app.

0:18.5

Download the app today.

0:27.2

This is an industry that's out of control.

0:30.4

If they don't follow the law, in drug supply, people die.

0:34.8

That's just it.

0:35.8

People die.

0:36.8

Joe Ranesezi ran the Office of Diversion Control at the DEA.

0:41.3

And tonight, in a joint 60 minutes Washington Post investigation, this high-ranking whistle

0:47.1

blur says the opioid epidemic spread because Congress was influenced by the drug industry

0:53.8

and Washington lobbyists.

0:55.6

You know the implication of what you're saying, that these big companies knew that they

1:03.4

were pumping drugs into American communities that were killing people.

1:09.9

That's not an implication.

1:10.9

That's a fact.

1:14.4

This is the 75th year of the Hunger Games.

1:19.4

Donald Sutherland has been described as one of the greatest actors and never to have been

1:23.1

nominated for an Oscar.

1:24.6

He's been in more than 150 movies and TV shows, but still agonizes over each character

1:32.7

he plays and is still plagued by self-consciousness about how he looks.

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