The US Prescription Opioids Killing 170 Each Day
This documentary confronts America's opioid epidemic, a crisis in which prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and fentanyl claim around one hundred and seventy lives every day. It follows the lawyers and prosecutors fighting to hold the pharmaceutical industry to account. Through their efforts, it exposes how addiction spread from doctors' offices into communities nationwide. Urgent and powerful, it lays bare the human toll behind the headlines. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.
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