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The Crime of the Century
2021
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The Crime of the Century
Part One 1 Season 1 Episode
118 min
2021
7.8
A look at how Purdue Pharma worked with the FDA to get OxyContin approved for wider use, promoting the highly profitable pain medication's safety without sufficient evidence, and creating a campaign to redefine pain and how it's treated.
pharmaceutical industry
government cover-up
political corruption
government corruption
government regulation
pharmaceuticals
political scandal
crime against humanity
official corruption
pharmaceuticals company
health documentary
observational documentary
opioid epidemic
synthetic heroin
crime documentary
unreliable government
industrial documentary
corrupt government
