The Dopesick Tragedy (w/ Danny Strong & Beth Macy)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The new TV series, DOPESICK, showcases the big lie that a new opioid drug Purdue Pharma was pushing - oxycontin - was safe, effective, and most importantly not addictive. Well, it was. And the new drug had been blessed by an FDA official who later went on to work for, you guessed it, Purdue Pharma. This is the story of the billion dollar drug company run by the Sackler family and how they pushed this product out to the masses creating an addiction to a dangerous narcotic. Danny Strong, the director and writer of the DOPESICK series as well as the author of the book it's based on, Beth Macy, on this episode. Yahoo News' own Jon Ward joins as well to update us on Steve Bannon, who recently appeared in court after originally defying his subpoena.
GUESTS:
- Danny Strong (@Dannystrong), Writer/Director/Actor/Producer
- Beth Macy (@papergirlmacy), Journalist, author of the award-winning, NYT-bestseller DOPESICK
- Jon Ward (@jonward11), Senior Political Correspondent for Yahoo News
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
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| 0:00.0 | I've got another patient coming in here in a few minutes, so of course. |
| 0:05.4 | I won't take a much of your time. |
| 0:07.7 | You're probably already familiar with our drug MS-Contin. |
| 0:10.8 | You treat severe pain, many patients, cancer. |
| 0:14.2 | MS-Contin is a very good drug. |
| 0:16.0 | So what Purdue did is they took the same system, the cotton system, and they produced opioid |
| 0:21.5 | for chronic end moderate pain. |
| 0:23.6 | I would never prescribe an narcotic for moderate pain. |
| 0:26.6 | It was a pretty long history down here, pill abuse. |
| 0:30.8 | Less than 1% of people get addicted to oxycontin. |
| 0:34.2 | That's not possible. |
| 0:36.4 | But it is. |
| 0:37.9 | The FDA actually created a special label to say that it's less addictive than other opioids. |
| 0:46.2 | Right there. |
| 0:47.3 | That's a scene from the new TV series on Hulu called DopeSync, in which a sales rep for Purdue |
| 0:54.2 | Pharma tries to convince a country doctor, played brilliantly by Michael Keaton, that the |
| 0:59.7 | new opioid drug the company was pushing, oxycontin, was safe, effective, and most importantly |
| 1:06.6 | non-addictive. |
| 1:08.4 | The claim was not to put too fine a point on it, a lie. |
| 1:12.3 | Made all the more egregious that it was blessed by an FDA official, who later goes to work |
| 1:16.7 | for, you guessed it, Purdue Pharma. |
| 1:19.3 | It was only one of the many outrages that DopeSync relates, as it tells the story, |
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