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Crime of the Century, The [Debuts May 10 and 11 on HBO 9:00-10:50 p.m. ET/PT and available via HBO MAX VOD platform.] Alex Gibney's powerful, captivating, eye-opening, ire-inducing, 220-minute two-part documentary: Part 1 examines the devastating opioid crisis, exposes the shenanigans and concerted effort by greedy Purdue Pharma to cover up the highly addictive nature of OxyContin, and complicit, high-level political interference that helped Purdue Pharma peddle the opioid to unsuspecting medical community and patients and consists of candid commentary by Life Tree Pain Clinic founder Dr. Lynn Webster, Empire of Pain author Patrick Radden Keefe, Purdue Pharma Board of Directors Richard Sackler, victim Mike Ross, opioid specialist Dr. Andrew Kolodny, former Purdue sales rep. Mark Ross, Medical Director and Stanford addiction specialist Dr. Anne Lembke, former Medical director David Haddox, EMT Giles Sartin, widower Roy Bosley who sues those he believes are responsible for his wife Carol opioid overdose; author of Pain Killer and NY Times reporter Barry Meier, whistleblower and primary care physician Dr. Art Van Zee, and former Department of Justice official Paul Pelletier. Part 2, "What's in It for Me?" examines the greed of companies such as Isys Therapeutics, an upstart opioid manufacturer of fentanyl, and its CEO Dr. John Kapoor and sales reps to deceive and bribe physicians to prescribe a drug they marketed as rarely addictive in order to increase the bottomline that has resulted in nearly 500,000 deaths in this century, the rise of pop-up pain clinics to make a quick buck by catering to people wanting to get high and defrauding insurance companies, and the look-the-other-way attitude of some greedy lawmakers who were deciding government policy but given money by drug manufacturers to turn a blind eye and consists of interview snippets with retired DEA Deputy Assistant Administrator Joseph Rannazzisi, former DEA attorney Jonathan Novak, The Washington Post reporters (such as Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, and Lenny Bernstein), Assistant U.S. Attorneys for Massachusetts (such as David Lazarus, Nathaniel Yeager, and Fred Wyshak), DEA agent Will Kimbell, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Ed Byrne, former Insys Sales V. P. Alec Burlakoff, ex-Insys regional sales manager Sunrise Lee, and fentanyl dealer Caleb Lanier.
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