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The Business of Opioids
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When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg
Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could…
March 2, 2020
Inside Purdue Pharma’s Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid ‘Anti-Story’
OxyContin’s makers delayed the reckoning for their role in the opioid crisis by funding think tanks, placing friendly…
November 25, 2019
‘Drug Entrepreneurs’: How Federal Drug Policy Fed Appalachia’s Overdose Crisis
I remember the first time I heard someone I went to high school with died of a drug…
November 28, 2018