The pharmaceutical industry, specifically the Sackler family, knowingly exploited the opioid epidemic to make money by marketing a dangerous, addictive drug as non-addictive.

“The sackers knew it and they knew how to monetize it and they knew how to game the system”

The opioid crisis was largely driven by pharmaceutical companies promoting misleading information about the safety and efficacy of their drugs to a medical field eager for quick solutions.

“the misleading messages were also delivered to a population and institutions for which those were very convenient myths. And I think it's that combination, the intense lobbying, the intense promotion, the millions of dollars given to the FDA, the DEA, other regulatory bodies, you know, promoting the”

Doctors and pharmaceutical companies were motivated by financial gain to overprescribe opioids without warning patients about the high risk of addiction.

“they were incentivizing them to push them out as much as possible so if they're so readily so readily available legally how was there such a big underground market for them because not everybody could get them like it wasn't that easy”

The pharmaceutical industry, including Purdue Pharma, shares a clear moral obligation and culpability for the crisis, regardless of the complexities surrounding patient paths to addiction.

“it's interesting that perhaps the study of purua and the saers more than any other single entity in that entire chain that I explained could provide a greater context of what we're up against would would you agree with that”

The primary driver of the current opioid crisis is illegal drugs like fentanyl rather than prescription pain medication.

“the vast majority of overdose deaths they come from illicit street drugs fentanyl and heroin okay they're not coming from prescription painkillers”

The prevalence of fentanyl in the drug supply is a primary factor in the current opioid crisis and was the cause of her father's death.

“the fentanyl essentially like killed my dad like almost you know you just don't know what you're getting right you don't yeah and that's what I mean that's what I think anybody should know”