Painkiller delves into the Canadian opioid epidemic, featuring interviews with families who have lost loved ones, as well as healthcare workers and policy experts who question a health system that favours corporate profits over patients. It all stems from the late 1990s when pharmaceutical companies ...
opioid epidemic. She received treatment for her addiction to the painkiller OxyContin in 2017 and later recounted her experience in the magazine Artforum. She called on the Sackler family, philanthropists who made part of their fortune from the sale of the drug, to take responsibility for their ...
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One thing they will probably agree on is that Oxy Kingpins, while far from the most thorough investigation on the origins of the opioid crisis, condenses years upon years of evidence into a sprawling panorama that will bring even its most uninformed viewers up to speed about this unbelievable...
Everywhere you go, you hear about how there is an "Opioid epidemic" and that something needs to be done, we are awash in the belief that we have to make opioids harder to get somehow. It's hands down strictly fear mongering, and it's so destructive. My life has been made so much ...
And yet, conflating the prevalence of a drug with its potential is just as dangerous as ignoring it. The same way that the (far more worrisome) opioid epidemic can’t negate the intended benefits of painkillers, the abuse of amphetamines can’t negate the value they offer to others. Maybe...
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” about photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her campaign to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid epidemic; Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love,” following two French volcanologists; and Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “A House Made of Splinters,” about three children awaiting their fate...
"If you're a teenager, you're dealing with parents probably who lived through the recession like us, who've been scared that they're gonna lose their homes or have financial hardship," she explains. "You're living in a culture with an opioid epidemic and a drug epidemic. ...
“He was like my biggest influence when I was a kid,” says Neil Young in the film. “Watching him play guitar, he had an amazing sense about the way he played. And the feeling that you got when you listened to him. It was more than just chops.” ...