Soon to be a major TV series on Disney+
Beth Macy reveals the disturbing truth behind America's opioid crisis and
explains how a nation
has become enslaved to prescription drugs.
This powerful and moving story explains how a large corporation, Purdue,
encouraged small
town doctors to prescribe OxyContin to a country already awash in painkillers.
The drug's
dangerously addictive nature was hidden, whilst many used it as an escape, to
numb the pain of
of joblessness and the need to pay the bills. Macy tries to answer a grieving
mother's question 2
why her only son died 2and comes away with a harrowing tale of greed
and need.