The Crime of the Century - Season 1 Episode 1
A look at how Purdue Pharma worked with the FDA to get OxyContin approved for wider use, promoting the highly profitable pain medication's safety without sufficient evidence, and creating a campaign to redefine pain and how it's treated.
- genus: Documentary, Crime, Drama
- Studio: HBO
- keyword: miniseries, opioid epidemic, synthetic heroin
- cast: Edward Byrne, Patrick Radden Keefe, Lenny Bernstein, Roy Bosley, Alec Burlakoff, Scott Higham