Its sole ingredient is oxycodone, an opioid twice as strong as morphine. In 2017, Keefe published a story in the New Yorker about Purdue Pharma, the company that manufactures the drug Ox圜ontin.
To understand what’s missing from the story, it’s useful to go over what most people do know: The problem with prescription drugs has far older, more insidious roots in American history than all the hype and hand-wringing of the last several years indicates. But investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe’s reporting reveals that, actually, you haven’t heard half of it. We know what you’re thinking: I’ve heard this story before. We’re talking, of course, about opioid addiction. As the Covid-19 pandemic begins to fizzle in the U.S., a very different kind of epidemic still rages.
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