An illuminating, important interview. While I’ve been learning a lot about the opiate crisis for some time, I still plan to watch this excellent documentary. Thank you, Alex Gibney! And I really can’t even begin to describe how my head spins with utter outrage that people who sell marijuana sit in American prisons while the whole Sackler family — who are responsible for destroying lives and killing thousands! — are never locked up. This is insane! They should be convicted and imprisoned for the rest of their lifetimes! Our criminal injustice system must change and hold our nation’s greatest criminals responsible. Letting the extreme wealthy white collar criminals off the hook is profoundly unacceptable, unjust, disturbing, dangerous, and just pure madness! ― Molly
As the U.S. continues to deal with the fallout from the devastating opioid epidemic that has killed over 500,000 people in the country since 1999, we speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, whose latest documentary, “The Crime of the Century,” looks at the pharmaceutical industry’s methods in promoting and selling the powerful drugs. “I realized that the big problem here was that we had been seeing it as a crisis, like a natural disaster, like a flood or a hurricane, rather than as a series of crimes,” says Gibney. “You had these terrible incentives, where the incentive is not to cure the patient. The incentive is to just make as much money as possible.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says U.S. drug overdose deaths skyrocketed to a record 93,000 last year — a nearly 30% increase. It is the largest one-year increase ever recorded, with overdoses rising in 48 of 50 states.
Please go here for the original interview and full transcript and video: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/19/opioid_crisis_documentary_alex_gibney
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