When I walked into the diner my source was already there, sitting in a booth. It was late summer of 2001 and, earlier that year, I had started writing articles for The New York Times about the growing abuse of a then little-known painkiller, OxyContin. Its maker, Purdue Pharma, was promoting the powerful narcotic to doctors as a “wonder” drug that was far safer from abuse and addiction than other pain pills.
I did watch the Netflix movie, it’s good.
In a just world the death chamber would be made ready but the money this family made on the graves of hundreds of thousands of victims bought their immunity.
