1 Season
2 Episode
The Crime of the Century - Season 1 Episode 1 Part One
Big Pharma sold America a lie and made a killing.
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.
- Year: 2021
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: miniseries, opioid epidemic, synthetic heroin
- Director: Alex Gibney
- Cast: Edward Byrne, Patrick Radden Keefe, Lenny Bernstein, Roy Bosley, Alec Burlakoff, Scott Higham